Marginalization of Scheduled Caste in Education

Abstract

In India, educational backwardness is identified by certain category which includes Scheduled Caste (SC), Other Backward Class, Scheduled Tribes, and women, etc. Jayprakash Narayan Sarvodaya Yojana emphasizes social revolution through which they can make inclusive development of the SC population in the mainstream society. This organization emphasizes class-less and caste-less socialism for the development of society. According to the Census Report of India in 2011, the SC literacy level was only 66.1% from the all-India level of 73%. The social distances between non-SC and SC are one of the major reasons for the high rate of drop-out and a lower rate of enrolment in the schools. The attitude of the distance between the two groups is significant, which has been perpetuated for a long time and still the practice between two groups or categories continues. Education of SC is dependent on ‘social development’, which is contingent upon the inclusion of all sections of society into the process of education.