Parents try to adopt certain behavioural patterns to have control over their child and to shape the personality of their child in a beautiful manner that in ways can enhance the overall development of their child. The research was carried out with the aims to investigate 1) to compare the level of emotional intelligence among tribal and non-tribal boys' and girls' adolescents 2) To compare the level of emotional intelligence among tribal and non-tribal boys' and girls' adolescents with regard to nature of parenting style (highly parental accepted group, moderately rejected parental group and highly rejected parental group). 3)To examine the association between dimensions of parental acceptance-rejection with emotional intelligence and its dimensions among tribal and non-tribal adolescents of Jharkhand. To achieve these objectives, two measures were utilized namely, Parental acceptance and rejection questionnaire for measuring the perceived parenting style (Prakash and Bhargava ,1980) and Emotional intelligence scale (Singh and Narain, 2014) on a sample of 480 tribal and non-tribal adolescents of Jharkhand selected using mixed sampling design (random sampling followed by stratified sampling). The data was analysed using SPSS v.27 software. Tribal and non-tribal boys' and girls' adolescents differ on the levels of emotional intelligence. Tribal and non-tribal adolescents also differ significantly on the levels of emotional intelligence among highly parental accepted group, moderately rejected parental group and highly rejected parental group. Only one dimension of parental acceptance-rejection i.e., warmth/affection was found to be positively associated with the overall emotional intelligence and its dimensions. Whereas, the other negative dimensions of parenting (aggression/hostility, neglect/indifference and rejection/undifferentiated) were negatively related with the overall emotional intelligence and with the dimensions of emotional intelligence (understanding emotions, understanding motivation, empathy and handling relations). This study aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals-3 (SDG-3).