Abstract
Historically, the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India have been the victims of social exclusion and marginalization along with living under poverty. The SCs in Karnataka form a sizeble part with 17 per cent of the State’s population and more than 75 per cent of them living in rural areas. They have continued to be socially, educationally and economically backward even today. Due to various constitutional provisions and welfare programmes for SCs, the incidence of poverty is declining in percentage terms but a large number of SC population still continue to be poor. A large number of studies have focused on the issue of poverty in general, but not many studies relating to incidence of poverty across social groups in India and Karnataka. In this backdrop, the present paper is to analyse the trends in prevalence of poverty among SCs in Karnataka at macto perspective.
Highlights
The Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Karnataka form a sizeble part with 17 per cent of the State’s population and more than 75 per cent of them living in rural areas
The incidence of poverty declining significantly among all the social groups, but SCs/STs, they continued to experience a greater incidence of poverty, as compared to others
A large sample survey conducted by Vishwanatha (2013) in Karnataka observed that 93 per cent of total surveyed SC households in the state still living under poverty line and major source of income to SC families is labour wage, mainly agriculture labour
Summary
The Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Karnataka form a sizeble part with 17 per cent of the State’s population and more than 75 per cent of them living in rural areas. The least proportion of Scheduled Caste population is recorded in the coastal district of Udupi (6.41 per cent) and preceded by Dakshina Kannada (7.09 per cent) District. There are 101 sub castes among SCs, Adi Karnataka, Madiga, Banjara, Bhovi, Holeya, Adi Dravida and Bhambi together constitute 85.0 per cent of the SC population of the state. They are followed by Madiga (15.2 per cent), Banjara (11.6 per cent), Bhovi (11.2 per cent), Holeya (7.5 per cent), Adi Dravida (7.2 per cent) and Bhambi (6.6 per cent). The present paper is to analyse the trends in prevalence of poverty among SCs in Karnataka at macto perspective with the following g objectives
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