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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Human Development Index: 'Gap remains between SCs, STs and other social groups' -Manoj CG

Human Development Index: 'Gap remains between SCs, STs and other social groups' -Manoj CG

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published Published on Feb 8, 2017   modified Modified on Feb 8, 2017
-The Indian Express

Overall unemployment has increased by approximately 31 per cent in the last 5 years.

New Delhi:
THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate has increased by more than 56 per cent among Scheduled Castes, by 69 per cent among Schedules Tribe communities, and nearly 62 per cent among Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the last five years, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

Overall unemployment has increased by approximately 31 per cent over the same period, Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh told the Upper House during Question Hour.

In a written answer, Singh said, “There has been improvement in the Human Development Indices of SCs and STs over the years, even if the gap in the indices (still) remains between them and other social groups”. He said the main reasons for this gap are “poverty, and its vicious circle, illiteracy, dependence largely on wage labour, etc”.

“Unemployment rate for Scheduled Castes in 2011 was 3.2 per cent. Today it has gone up to 5 per cent,” Singh said. “For STs, it was 2.6 per cent (in 2011) and has gone to 4.4 per cent. Total unemployment rate in the country has also gone up — it was 3.8 per cent in July 2011, and has become 5 per cent today,” he said.

Among the reserved categories, the “highest incidence of unemployment today is of OBCs — it was 3.2 per cent in 2011 and became 5.2 per cent in August 2016,” the minister said.

According to data tabled by the government in Rajya Sabha, unemployment rate among Scheduled Castes was 3.2 per cent in July 2011, 4.5 per cent in 2012 and touched 5 per cent in August 2016. Similarly, it went up from 2.6 per cent in 2011 to 3.6 per cent in 2012 and 4.5 per cent in 2013 among STs. It was 4.4 per cent in August 2016.

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The Indian Express, 7 February, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/human-development-index-gap-remains-between-scs-sts-and-other-social-groups-4511257/


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