The present paper is a selective overview of the labour force participation rate, working population ratio and unemployment issues of tribal India. This paper has been written on the basis of qualitative and quantitative data collected from secondary sources. It is find that in India labour force participation rate in usual status is 37.6%, working population ration is 40% and unemployment rate is 4.3% for tribal India in 2017-18. The central conclusion is that unemployment ratio in different round of NSSO over the period from 2004-05 to 2011-12 and 2017-18 (PLFS) shows that in rural areas among males of different social groups in 2017-18 compared to that of 2011-12, unemployment rate has increased by nearly 4% points and for female the increase has nearly 1% to 4% points. In urban areas among males of different social group in 2017-18 compared to that of 2011-12, unemployment rate has increased by 3% to 5% points and for females the increase was nearly 3% to 6% during this period. In 2004-05, poverty in rural and urban areas in the country was jointly 37.7% which has jointly reduced the poverty of rural and urban areas to 22.0% in 2011-12. It is find that 60% of Tribal population lives below poverty line in India in 2004-05 which was declined at 43% in 2011-12. It is suggested in the paper to develop self reliant and self respect tribal society by strengthening the tribal community providing employment generation and poverty alleviation programs, sustainable development initiatives and empowerment of tribal women. As a result the decline trend in poverty and unemployment in tribal is marked. In the last part of article focused on problems towards tribal community and remedial measures to solve it. Therefore, focused on art and culture , piece villages, tribal bazaar, electricity production, free education, vocational course and necessary and employable, training and skill development programmes must be launched for tribal students and women and so as to make them self reliant and economically independent.