Unlike conservative Indian societies, no moral policing bars premarital relationships. But marriages generally happen after puberty. The Baiga allow remarriage and even divorce. For instance, 20-year-old Bishram was married for two years, but his wife left him as he was not able to fulfil the economic needs of the family, “I don’t do any work, my family is poorer than her family.” The majority of the Baiga population resides in the Kabirdham and Bilaspur districts of Chhattisgarh, and in Kawardha (Kabirdham) they are the highest. The Baiga are one of five PVTGs in the state along with Abhujmaria, Kamar, Pahadi Korwa, and Birhor. In Madhya Pradesh, they can be found in Eastern Satpura, Mandla, Dindori, Balaghat, Baghelkhand and Sidhi Janpads. A tribal group is classified as PVTG based on attributes such as declining population, forest-based livelihoods, pre-agricultural level of existence, extremely low literacy, and a subsistence economy. Researcher Devendra Prasad Pandey of the Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya in Chitrakoot conducted a study to build a contemporary socio-economic profile of the Baiga tribe in Sidhi, Anuppur, and Shahdol districts of Madhya Pradesh. It was published in The Economic and Political Weekly. He found that 68 percent of respondents are involved in agriculture, while 29 percent are contractual labourers.