-Newslaundry.com/ Factly.in India’s declining Child Sex Ratio is setting off alarm bells. But scheduled tribes (STs) are far ahead of the rest of the country when it comes the(CSR) & Sex Ratio. Factly analyses the numbers and takeaways. Whatever be one’s stance on #SelfieWith Daughter, there is no denying the fact that a Child Sex Ratio  (CSR) of 918 is abysmal  – and it’s time to get our act together.  While the...

-PTI NEW DELHI: About 30 per cent of rural households belong to Scheduled Caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) group, revealed Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011. As per the census, 29.43 per cent of the households belong to the SC and ST category across the country. Please click here to read more. ...

-DNA OBCs make upto 66.48% of the total 17.92 crore rural households – much higher than 54% decided by the Mandal Commission in 1980 Even as the Union government shied away from releasing the caste data collected in 2011, the rural socio-economic survey data put out on Friday speaks of two Indias – that of the affluent and the poor. Around 73 % of the country's people live in villages, with the...

-The Hindu Census shows that the bulk of rural households subsist on very low incomes Around 73 per cent of households in India are rural, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) data released by the government on Friday. Of these, 18.5 per cent and scheduled caste households and 11 per cent belong to the scheduled tribe category. The SECC, jointly released by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Rural Development,...

-The Hindu But Tamil films are refreshingly different. Just six of the lead characters in the nearly 300 Bollywood movies released over the last two years belonged to a backward caste, an analysis of data by The Hindu shows. In contrast, a substantial number of popular Tamil movies of 2013 and 2014 had backward caste lead characters. For an insight into the depiction of caste in Bollywood, The Hindu analysed all Hindi movies released...