Poor nutritional status of individuals leads to stunting, wasting, underweight, various diseases, and poor performance in everyday life. A developing country like India is still lagging behind in achieving a healthy population. Adolescence is a very crucial phase and the growth of the reproductive stage among human being occurs during the adolescent period, this phase requires a good quality of balanced diet. So it is a matter of concern to provide better nutrition to the children to achieve the goal of a healthy nation. Here an attempt has been made to assess the nutritional status of children/ adolescents of a tribal group. Adolescent boys and girls aged 10-18 years among Dongria Kondh tribe (PVTG) of Niyamgiri hill, district Rayagada of Odisha were recruited for the present investigation. A cross-sectional study was conducted on a total of 900 respondents comprising 450 boys and 450 girls. A pre-tested interview schedule, anthropometric tools, and techniques were used for data collection. A significant difference between boys and girls has been observed in the case of age-wise means, the standard deviation of height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) of the participants. Z-score of height-for-age (HAZ), and weight-for-age (WAZ) were computed. It was found that girls were more stunted (76.7%) than boys (56.6 %). At the same time, the boys (37.8%) were more underweight (≤ -2 SD) than girls (24.9%). It was concluded that the nutritional status of the adolescents of this particularly vulnerable tribal group was quite alarming than many tribal counterparts of the country.