Level of Education among Scheduled Caste Population: Case Study of Bilaspur District Chhattisgarh State (original) (raw)
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SCHEDULED CASTE LITERACY & DISPARITIES IN BILASPUR DISTRICT OF CHHATTISGARH STATE
After independence, scheduled castes are going under social and economic changes both in rural and urban areas. Various constitutional amendments gave rights to scheduled castes. They are also given reserved quotas on various organizations in order to abolish untouched abilities and other taboos. They are becoming more conscious about the education and job of their children. Their attitude towards religion, child marriage, superstitions, etc. is changing. Economic transformation is also not lagging behind. By and large, they are no longer bonded or permanent labourers. They are now gradually becoming marginal farmers and have started working in non-agricultural sectors too. The educated rural scheduled castes now prefer non-agricultural activities and the considerable number of such youth is in banking, marketing, education, administration and judicial services. Literacy level and educational attainment are vital indicators of development of any society. In spite of many socioeconomic securities provided to scheduled castes in the constitution and by the government, scheduled castes are still comparatively illiterates and less educated than general category. This could be attributed to a variety of reasons such as early age marriage, high female illiteracy due to importance to male child, child labour, superstition, dominance of higher castes, and deprivation from socioeconomic status etc.
Literacy level and educational attainment are vital indicators of development of any society. In spite of many socioeconomic securities provided to scheduled castes in the constitution and by the government, scheduled castes are still comparatively illiterates and less educated than general category. This could be attributed to a variety of reasons such as early age marriage, high female illiteracy due to importance to male child, child labour, superstition, dominance of higher castes, and deprivation from socioeconomic status etc. Education is an important variable affecting demographic behavior concerning marriage, fertility, mortality, migration as well as participation in labour force. In a number of research studies, a clear cut negative relationship has been established between the educational level of women and fertility. The age of females at marriage is also affected by the educational attainment of females. Even infant mortality is found to be affected by the educational status of mother. Thus there is a need to study on literacy and educational attainment of scheduled castes of Maldah district and to give suggestions for their educational development.
Disparity in Education among Scheduled Caste Population in West Bengal
The Indian Journal of Spatial Science, 2019
The scheduled Caste (SC) population of India undergoes social and historical discrimination. After the seven decades of independence, low literacy rates still reflect the impact of the discrimination. Through the efforts of Dr. BhimraoAmbedkar, who fought for the rights of the 'Depressed Classes, the Scheduled Population has benefited from the "Reservation Policy". But throughout the state of India, there is some group of SC community who are still ahead of the rest of the community. In West Bengal Sunri, Namasudra, Dhoba, and Poundra are the top in terms of educational achievement. In spite of the higher population share to the total SCs population of the state, Bagdi, Bauri, Dom, and Mal are still lagging behind. In this paper, an attempt has been made to find out the privileged community among the 60 SCs community of West Bengal. The main objective of this paper is to compare the major SC community of West Bengal in terms of various aspects of literacy.
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The Scheduled Castes (SC) are among the most socially and educationally disadvantaged groups in West Bengal. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the literacy status of Scheduled Caste and various sub-castes of Scheduled Caste community in West Bengal. The paper also reviews the current literacy status and literacy growth pattern of Scheduled Caste and various sub-castes. The paper highlights districtwise current literacy status and literacy trends among Scheduled caste in West Bengal. Also, highlights the sub-castes wise current literacy status and literacy growth pattern among Scheduled caste. The paper briefly analyses districts wise and sub-castes wise current literacy status and literacy growth pattern among scheduled caste in West Bengal. The researcher concludes that districts wise and sub-castes wise literacy growth rate is consistently increase and the Government needs to pay more attention to those districts and sub-castes where the literacy rate is relatively low among scheduled castes in West Bengal.
Disparity in Education among the Scheduled Caste Population in West Bengal, 2011
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Scheduled Caste (SC) population of India undergoes social and historical discrimination. After the seven decades of independence, low literacy rates still reflect the impact of the discrimination. By the efforts of Dr. BhimraoAmbedkar, who fought for the rights of the 'Depressed Classes', the Scheduled Population have been benefited by the “Reservation Policy”. But throughout the state of India there is some group of SC community who are still ahead of the rest of the community. In West Bengal Sunri, Namasudra, Dhoba, Poundra are the top in terms of educational achievement. In spite of the higher population share to total SCs population of the state,Bagdi, Bauri, Dom, Mal are still lagging behind. In this paper an attempt has been made to find out the privileged community among the 60 SCs community ofWest Bengal. The main objective of this paper is to compare the major SC community ofWest Bengal in terms of various aspects of literacy.
A Regional Analysis of Literacy and Educational Levels of Scheduled Caste in Uttar Pradesh
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Literacy is a sensitive indicator of cultural advancement of an area. Literacy helps a social group to acquire a higher social status through the process of social mobility. The abysmally low rates of growth in literacy have been the result of faulty educational policy of British Government in India. The British policy of providing education to the elite resulted in neglect of mass education. The socioeconomic base of education in colonial India was extremely narrow and the door of education was closed for the economically and socially deprived sections of the society. There is a wide disparity in educational opportunities between scheduled and non-scheduled population of India. The main objective of the paper is to highlight the literacy status of scheduled castes in Uttar Pradesh and present a district wise analysis. In this paper an attempt has been made to present the educational status of scheduled caste since 1911. The first two section of the paper is devoted to the analysis of scheduled caste education during British period. The subsequent sections dealt with impact of post independence efforts. In the last section an attempt has also been made to assess the sex disparity in literacy within scheduled caste and disparity between scheduled and non-scheduled population. We find that the percentage of literates within scheduled caste population is particularly small in the districts in which their population is high. Another interesting feature is that all those districts where literacy among general population is high, scheduled caste literacy are also high.
Levels of Education among General and Scheduled Caste Population- A Comparative Analysis.pdf
The present study aims to analyse the spatial patterns of literacy rate of general population and scheduled caste population, variations in the level of education and relationship of literacy rate of general population and scheduled caste population (dependent variables) with the selected variables of education (independent variables) among the districts of the state of West Bengal. The entire research work is based on secondary sources of data, collected from Census of India publications , New Delhi and Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics, West Bengal state Govt. publications (2002-03), Kolkata. The boundary of the district has been taken as the smallest unit of the study. The spatial analysis reveals the facts that the majority of the districts of the state have medium and high level of literacy rate of general population and these districts are concentrated in the whole southern part and northern tip of the state of West Bengal, and more or less same pattern is followed by literacy rate of scheduled caste population, while, levels of education in the state are characterised by gradual increase from north-central part of the state towards north and towards the south, and from western to eastern directions, but the cap districts of the state, namely, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Koch Behar and Dakshin Dinajpur, a little distort this pattern of educational levels.
EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF SCHEDULE CASTE (SC) & SCHEDULE TRIBE (ST) IN WEST BENGAL-A Brief Study
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Literacy is considered as one of the indicators of educational development of a nation and an essential but necessary step towards education. The present study has examine the educational status of Scheduled caste & Scheduled Tribe in west Bengal with respect in India of various governmental Census Report(1951-2011).The objective of the study is find out the educational status and literacy rate of Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe. This study is documentary study and it is based on official documents and secondary data. According to 2011 census reports the SCs, STs Literacy rate in India male 75.20% & 68.50% and female 56.50% & 49.40%. The west Bengal SCs & STs literacy rate male 84.54 & 74.15 and female literacy rate 64.9% & 43.51%. The highest SC male literacy is appeared in North 24 Parganas 85.37% and the highest ST male literacy is appeared in Kolkata 86.81%, where the %. The highest SC female literacy is North 24 Parganas 73.69% and the highest ST female literacy is Kolkata 76.57% In West Bengal, So the SC, ST literacy rate in west Bengal is satisfactory position with respect in India, also the male-female gender gap has been decrease. The trend of SC & ST literacy rate in West Bengal has been increased; this is the highest improvement for Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe literacy rate in West Bengal. Key words: Literacy rate, Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe, Census report, West Bengal.
Indian Journal of Spatial Science Autumn Issue, 10 (2) 2019 pp. 73 - 79, 2019
Education among the scheduled caste (SC) community varies from one sub-caste to another across India primarily due to their distinct social and cultural identity, values and practice of untouchability among themselves. In the state of West Bengal, the scheduled caste communities apart from literacy recorded a substantial variation in the attainment of educational level. Thus, the present study examines the nature and pattern of educational attainment of the selected 8 SC communities in the 5 selected villages of Dhupguri CD Block of Jalpaiguri district also highlight the types of streams and courses taken up by them for higher education. Intensive field survey has been done with household enumeration, personal interviews and focus group discussions (FGD). The study shows that there has been a considerable variation in both educational attainment and choice of the streams in higher education within the various sub-castes of the SC population. The Dhobas, Namasudras, and Jalia Kaibarttas, are better placed in this regard than the Lohars, JhaloMalos, Kamis and Rajbanshis in the study area. The latter group usually takes up general degree courses in higher education which is less expensive and less competitive. Enrolment in the market or job-friendly streams and courses is comparatively high among the Dhobas, Jalia Kaibarttas, and Chamars on account of their relatively higher income and awareness.
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Lack of education among the scheduled castes (SC) population in India may be the main reason for remaining at the lower end of the social structure. Therefore, this study attempts to explore the changing trends in literacy among the SC to find out the determinants of higher education and to explore the major reasons for never enrolling or discontinuing/dropping out from educational institutions among the SC population in India. Using the data from the Census of India and also from National Sample Survey and employing both bivariate and multivariate analysis, the results reveal that though there is an increasing trend in the literacy rate among the SC population, but the rates remain quite below the national average. Gender disparity in literacy is quite evident. The low level of higher education mainly due to reasons like failing in examinations, heavy drop-outs and stagnation caused by their poor socio-economic background. Despite various efforts by the central and state government...