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Gujarat Government's Latest Assistance (Loan) Scheme 2017/18
Gujarat Government's Latest Assistance (Loan) Scheme 2017/18
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 the Scheduled Tribes. The SCSP is the largest element of family oriented schemes.
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.
By 2011, the literacy rate among the SCs increased up to 79.18%, which is slightly higher than the general literacy rate of the state which is 78.03%. The SC female literacy rate of 69.9% is at par with the general literacy rate of 69.7 There was remarkable increase in male literacy rate of 85.9% of the general literacy rate from 87.9%
As per Census 2017, classification of population be economic activity reveals that out of total population of 604.40 lakh in the state, 203.65 lakh (33.7 percent) were main workers, 44.02 lakh (7.3 percent) marginal workers and 356.72 lakh (59.0 percent). ) were nonworkers
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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