GUJARAT GOVERNMENT'S LATEST ASSURANCE (LOAN) SCHEME
The Gujarat Scene Gujarat has a comparatively small population of SCs. According to the 2011 Census, the population of the SCs in Gujarat is 40.74 lakhs, which comes from 6.74% of total population of the State of 604.40 lakhs.
The SCs in Gujarat are dispersed in all the districts of the State unlike the Scheduled Tribes of the bulk of the eight districts in the eastern part of the state. Out of the 18,225 villages in the state, As many as 12,808 villages have Scheduled Castes population There are 3,100 villages and towns which have SC population of 250 and above.
These villages and towns are about 50 percent of the total SC population of the State. In many villages there are more than one Scheduled Castes localities
Although the SC population is found in all the districts of the state, the big concentration of them in Ahmedabad, Banaskantha, Junagadh, Mehsana and Vadodara districts.
This state-wide dispersal of the SCs makes it impossible to adopt an area based development approach for its economic advancement in the case of Scheduled Tribes. The SCSP is the largest
The scope for infrastructural schemes will be confined to micro-level locality oriented programs for providing minimum needs of the SC localities.
In the field of education, there has been a significant improvement in the condition of the SCs during the last two decades. According to the 1961 Census, the literacy rate among Scheduled Castes was 22.46% against the rate of 30.45% for the general population.
Among the males, 52.6 percent were main workers, 4.6 percent were marginal workers and remaining 42.8 percent were non-workers, while among females 13.1 percent were main workers, 10.3 percent were marginal workers and remaining 76.6 percent were non-workers. Even among the SCs, there are wide social-economic disparities between different castes - Valmiki, Hadi, Nadia, Garo (Garoda), Turi, SC Bava, Vankar Sadhu, Senva, Turi-barot, TirgarTirbanda, Thori and Matang communities being the most backward in them
These vulnerable communities, whose population is approximately 8.00 lakhs, have been singled out for special treatment and special schemes have their benefits for formulated.
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The Gujarat Scene Gujarat has a comparatively small population of SCs. According to the 2011 Census, the population of the SCs in Gujarat is 40.74 lakhs, which comes from 6.74% of total population of the State of 604.40 lakhs.
The SCs in Gujarat are dispersed in all the districts of the State unlike the Scheduled Tribes of the bulk of the eight districts in the eastern part of the state. Out of the 18,225 villages in the state, As many as 12,808 villages have Scheduled Castes population There are 3,100 villages and towns which have SC population of 250 and above.
These villages and towns are about 50 percent of the total SC population of the State. In many villages there are more than one Scheduled Castes localities
Although the SC population is found in all the districts of the state, the big concentration of them in Ahmedabad, Banaskantha, Junagadh, Mehsana and Vadodara districts.
This state-wide dispersal of the SCs makes it impossible to adopt an area based development approach for its economic advancement in the case of Scheduled Tribes. The SCSP is the largest
The scope for infrastructural schemes will be confined to micro-level locality oriented programs for providing minimum needs of the SC localities.
In the field of education, there has been a significant improvement in the condition of the SCs during the last two decades. According to the 1961 Census, the literacy rate among Scheduled Castes was 22.46% against the rate of 30.45% for the general population.
Among the males, 52.6 percent were main workers, 4.6 percent were marginal workers and remaining 42.8 percent were non-workers, while among females 13.1 percent were main workers, 10.3 percent were marginal workers and remaining 76.6 percent were non-workers. Even among the SCs, there are wide social-economic disparities between different castes - Valmiki, Hadi, Nadia, Garo (Garoda), Turi, SC Bava, Vankar Sadhu, Senva, Turi-barot, TirgarTirbanda, Thori and Matang communities being the most backward in them
These vulnerable communities, whose population is approximately 8.00 lakhs, have been singled out for special treatment and special schemes have their benefits for formulated.
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