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Tribal women play a major role in the management of their natural, social and economic resources and agricultural development. But they remain backward due to traditional values, superstitions. Social evils and mainly for their illiteracy. Keeping these statement in view the present study planned to conduct an empirical investigation on the women empowerment in tribal setting because the tribal women are not alike to their counterpart in urban area. So the study was conducted with an objective to know the role of empowerment process is really been achieved in Indian context or not, to know whether the empowerment process gives power to powerlessness, and to help them for developing decision making power. For getting all, the study was conducted in four villages of Champua Block in Keonjhar District. To get naked data researcher used an Interview schedule method for collecting data from the respondents. The major findings are : Tribal women want to imitate the Hindu caste women but on the other hand they are very particular about observing their rituals and observances modern Education, employment opportunities and impact of modernization slowly empower them for getting equal share in every sphere.