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Of Poverty, Inequality and gigantic denials -Abhijit Mukhopadhyay

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published Published on Aug 16, 2015   modified Modified on Aug 16, 2015
-Bargad.org

A good amount of data from Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 are out – though the caste data are yet to be divulged to the public. And expectedly there is a demand to make the caste data public as soon as possible. However, currently that is not the point of public discussion. Rather, the survey data show in no uncertain terms the abject poverty and inequality which are prevailing in rural India.

Out of total 24.39 crore households in the country, the number of rural households is a huge 17.91 crore which substantiates the fact that the real India still resides in the villages. The survey data reveal some astounding facts which is usually ignored in the policy making circles, particularly in the last 20 years or so. To start with, 38.27 per cent of total rural households are landless and deriving major part of their income from manual casual labour. After 68 years of independence, that is simply unacceptable amount of landlessness in rural sector. The promise of land reform (just after independence) has almost faded from the public memory and a large part of rural population still do not have any access to land which is generally the major source of rural income through various farming and other activities. This also raises questions on the zeal with which the Land Bill is pursued by the current government. Shifting of ownership of land from rural landowners to corporate entities with sufficient ease will further destabilise the pattern of landholding in the rural sector – there is very little doubt about it. Only 30.10 per cent of rural households derive their household income directly from cultivation quite naturally and a huge 51.14 per cent derive income from manual casual labour. It simply means that most of the rural folk are not land owners but dependent on day-to-day menial drudgery for the sustenance and livelihood.

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Bargad.org, 15 August, 2015, http://bargad.org/2015/08/15/of-poverty-inequality-and-gigantic-denials/


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