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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Landlessness key to rural deprivation, census says -Subodh Ghildiyal

Landlessness key to rural deprivation, census says -Subodh Ghildiyal

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published Published on Jul 13, 2015   modified Modified on Jul 13, 2015
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Landlessness and dependence on manual casual labour for a livelihood are key deprivations facing rural families, socio-economic census figures suggest.

This, experts say, means they are far more vulnerable to impoverishment than indicated by a plain reading of the census data.

While 48.5 per cent of all rural households are saddled with at least one deprivation indicator, the eye-opener is how much the other factors overlap with the worst of them — landless households engaged in manual labour.

The rural census mapped deprivation on the basis of seven indicators — households with kuchha house; without adult member in working age; headed by a woman and without an adult male in working age; with disabled member and without able-bodied adult; of SC/STs; without literate adults over 25 years; and landless engaged in manual labour.

The more the number of parameters on which a household is deprived, the worse its economic status and extent of poverty. It has been found that nearly 30 per cent have two deprivations, 13 per cent have three, though mercifully, only 0.01 per cent suffer from all seven handicaps.

The intersection of any of the six other handicaps with 'landless labour' makes it more acute than would otherwise be suggested by the observation that the household has "two deprivations". Nearly 5.40 crore households are in the landless-labourer category — dubbed by the rural development ministry as the "main running theme of deprivation".

Former Planning Commission member Mihir Shah called the correlation a worrying feature of the rural economy.

"The fact that a very high number of deprived households are also landless doing casual manual labour is significant. Land being the most important asset in rural India, its absence with other deprivations means a household has no asset and is that much more vulnerable. It has an uncertain source of income, without skills and also no asset to fall back upon," Shah said.

He added that along with landless families, what is also true is that small and marginal farmers are getting pauperized and are more engaged in manual labour.

As per figures, 59 per cent of households with kuchha houses are landless-labourers, followed by 55 per cent of those with no literate adult above 25 years and 54 per cent each of SC/ST households and female-headed households without adult male members.

At the same time, 47 per cent households without an adult member in working age are landless labourers followed by 45 per cent of those with disabled members and no able-bodied adult members.

The Times of India, 13 July, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Landlessness-key-to-rural-deprivation-census-says/articleshow/48047026.cms


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