Scheduled castes
Scheduled Castes ( English for "listed box"), abbreviated SC , called in India a group of socially disadvantaged groups, mostly lower Hindu - box , or Dalits , which according to the Indian Constitution send special rights (see. Affirmative action ). The total of 1,108 scheduled castes are listed in the first appendix ( schedule ) to the Indian constitution. According to the 2011 census, there were 201 million scheduled castes in India . This corresponded to a share of the population of 16.6 percent. Comparable special rights also have members of the indigenous tribal population as Scheduled Tribes (ST) and the members of the "other backward classes" ( Other Backward Classes , OBC).
According to the Indian Constitution (Article 341 (1)) only members of the Hindu, Sikhs and Buddhist religions can be classified as Scheduled Castes . According to the 2001 census, the state with the highest proportion of was Scheduled Castes of the Punjab (28.9%) and the state with the lowest share Mizoram (0.03%). The district with the highest percentage of SC was Koch Bihar (50.1%) and the district with the lowest percentage was Lawngtlai (0.01%).
| State / Union Territory | population | Scheduled Castes (SC) |
Scheduled Tribes (ST) |
Percent SC | Percent ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jammu and Kashmir | 10,143,700 | 770.155 | 1,105,979 | 7.59 | 10.90 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,077,900 | 1,502,170 | 244,587 | 24.72 | 4.02 |
| Punjab | 24,358,999 | 7,028,723 | 0 | 28.85 | 0.00 |
| Chandigarh | 900.635 | 157,597 | 0 | 17.50 | 0.00 |
| Uttaranchal | 8,489,349 | 1,517,186 | 256.129 | 17.87 | 3.02 |
| Meghalaya | 2,318,822 | 11,139 | 1,992,862 | 0.48 | 85.94 |
| Assam | 26,655,528 | 1,825,949 | 3,308,570 | 6.85 | 12.41 |
| West Bengal | 80.176.197 | 18,452,555 | 4,406,794 | 23.02 | 5.50 |
| Jharkhand | 26,945,829 | 3,189,320 | 7,087,068 | 11.84 | 26.30 |
| Orissa | 36,804,660 | 6,082,063 | 8,145,081 | 16.53 | 22.13 |
| Chhattisgarh | 20,833,803 | 2,418,722 | 6,616,596 | 11.61 | 31.76 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 60.348.023 | 9,155,177 | 12,233,474 | 15.17 | 20.27 |
| Gujarat | 50,671,017 | 3,592,715 | 7,481,160 | 7.09 | 14.76 |
| Daman and Diu | 158.204 | 4,838 | 13,997 | 3.06 | 8.85 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 220,490 | 4,104 | 137.225 | 1.86 | 62.24 |
| Maharashtra | 96,878,627 | 9,881,656 | 8,577,276 | 10.20 | 8.85 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 76.210.007 | 12,339,496 | 5,024,104 | 16.19 | 6.59 |
| Karnataka | 52,850,562 | 8,563,930 | 3,463,986 | 16.20 | 6.55 |
| Goa | 1,347,668 | 23,791 | 566 | 1.77 | 0.04 |
| Lakshadweep | 60,650 | 0 | 57,321 | 0.00 | 94.51 |
| Kerala | 31,841,374 | 3,123,941 | 364.189 | 9.81 | 1.14 |
| Tamil Nadu | 62,405,679 | 11,857,504 | 651,321 | 19.00 | 1.04 |
| Pondicherry | 974.345 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| India as a whole | 1,028,737,436 | 166,635,700 | 84.326.240 | 16.20 | 8.20 |
Individual evidence
- ^ The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950.
- ^ Census of India 2011: Primary Census Abstract. Figures at a Glance. India.
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment: Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, accessed September 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Population. Census of India, 2001, accessed September 24, 2016 .
- ↑ T 00-005: Total Population, Population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and their proportions to the total population. Census of India, 2001, accessed September 24, 2016 .