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Livelihood is very crucial for any community to survive in this world. Livelihood crisis as a problem pose a serious question in this regard before tribal community in the world. The world with development paradigm is intervening all corners of nation which were isolated and untouched earlier. As a result, tribal area and tribal community are mostly affected by this change. Livelihood strategies with any kind of developmental measures for tribal people should be harmonious with their contextual community skill, locally available raw materials and further capacity building to adopt a few innovativeapproaches. This argument has been aptly supported by the sustainable livelihood approach. The present study is an attempt to understand the livelihood diversification among Sahariya tribe. The study is conducted in twoSahariya inhabited villages of the Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh. It is observed that diversified livelihood options are adopted and followed by the Sahariya for their socio-economic survival. In this context, they adopted both farm and non-farm employment. Some have even migrated to other places of district to find an alternative livelihood. While small tribal farmers adopt enterprise based self-employment and farming as a livelihood, the poor Sahariyatribals mostly depended on low skilled jobs, low capital intensive work like agriculture labour and industrial labour especially in unorganized sector. It can be concluded that Sahariya due to their economic marginalization are forced to diversify their livelihood options but nevertheless the lack of education and skill has posed many challenges for getting an affluentfor their survival. Hence, this problem needs more attention and more planned strategies are required to provide them better livelihood on sustainable basis.