Social protection is a menu of policy instruments that addresses poverty and vulnerability through social assistance, social insurance and efforts at social inclusion. Tribal people encounter socioeconomic, cultural and political problems. They are considered as a weaker section of the society. Social protection has raised up their development policy agenda. Level of living has enhanced through the implementation of Common Property Resources. In contemporary democratic and political arrangements of India, policies obviously being made by politically demanded and publicly noticed rather than people’s oriented and appropriate to necessities. This paper tries to investigate the effectiveness of Social Protection Programs and Common Property Resources in the tribal dominated backward districts of West Bengal viz Purulia, Bankura and Paschim Midnapur. Analysis gives powerful synergies between social protection and Common Property Resources with food security. A comprehensive social protection programme can have impact on food security level but it is also more important to build policy linkages from social protection to other sectors-agriculture, education, health, nutrition-and to institutionalize social protection within government systems that confers justifiable improvement in the social standard of the tribes.
