The name for caste census got here amid the findings that 44.4 per cent of the nation’s 17.24 crore rural households are from Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and OBC households kind the bulk in rural areas of seven states-Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. States, Kerala, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh – which collectively ship 235 Lok Sabha members to Parliament.
The information is a part of the Assessment of the Status of Land Holdings of Agricultural Households and Households in Rural India, 2019, a survey carried out by the Office of National Statistics, Ministry of Program Implementation and Statistics, the outcomes of which have been launched earlier this month. The information is for the agricultural 12 months 2018-19 – the agricultural 12 months in India is from July to June of the next 12 months.
The information reveals that out of an estimated 17.24 million rural households, 44.4% have been OBCs; 21.6% Scheduled Castes (SC); 12.3% Scheduled Tribes (ST) and 21.7% Other Social Groups. Of the entire rural households, 9.3 crore or 54% are agricultural households.
Tamil Nadu (67.7%) has the best proportion of rural OBC households and the bottom is Nagaland (0.2%). Apart from Tamil Nadu, six states – Bihar (58.1%), Telangana (57.4%), Uttar Pradesh (56.3%), Kerala (55.2%), Karnataka (51.6%), Chhattisgarh (51.4%) – account for OBC households More than half of rural households. These states are politically necessary as they’ve 235 members within the 543-member Lok Sabha.
In addition, the share of rural OBC households in 4 states – Rajasthan (46.8%), Andhra Pradesh (45.8%, Gujarat (45.4%) and Sikkim (45%) – exceeds the all-India determine of 44.4%. is increased as compared. Overall, 17 states – Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Haryana, Assam, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Tripura, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland have a lesser share. Number of rural OBC households as in comparison with the nationwide common.
Survey findings present that 45.8% of the estimated 93 million agricultural households are OBCs; 15.9% SC; 14.2% Scheduled Tribes and 24.1% from different social teams.
The survey additionally gives information on the common month-to-month earnings per agricultural family (based mostly on the ‘paid expenditure’ method). The common month-to-month earnings of a farmer household in any respect India degree in the course of the agricultural 12 months 2018-19 was Rs 10,218, whereas it was decrease for OBC agricultural households (Rs 9,977), SC households (Rs 8,142), ST households (Rs 8,979) . ) However, agricultural households from ‘different social teams’ recorded a mean month-to-month earnings of Rs 12,806.
For states, the common month-to-month earnings per agricultural family within the OBC class ranged between Rs 5,009 to Rs 22,384 in the course of the agricultural 12 months 2018-19. Among the 23 states for which earnings information can be found, Uttarakhand recorded the best common month-to-month earnings per OBC agricultural family, whereas Odisha (Rs 5,009) was the bottom.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
