Determinants of Role Performance of Tribal Women Sarpanches under Panchayati Raj System

Present investigation was conducted with 88 tribal women sarpanches of Dahod district of Gujarat State, to know their actual role performance under Panchayati Raj System. The study reveled that more than half of the tribal women sarpanches had medium level of role performance as an administrator, whereas, less than half of them had performed their role upto medium level as a communicator, representative, initiator, harmonizer, helper, executer, opinion maker and motivator. Personal, socio-economical, communicational and psychological variables of the tribal women sarpanches viz., age, education, size of family, political contact, mass media exposure, change agency contact and achievement motivation had influenced their role performance positively and significantly, whereas annual income and cosmopoliteness failed to show any significant influence.