SCHEDULED CASTE POPULATION IN ODISHA : AN ANALYSIS 1961-2011 BY A.B. OTA & B.N. MOHANTY (SCSTRTI) [PAPERBACK]

Caste occupies a vital place of prominence in the Indian
Society. The Scheduled Castes who accounts for a sizable population
i.e. 16.2% of the population of India and 17.13% in case of Odisha during
2011 have long sufferd from extreme social and economic
backwardness. Odisha has 93 numbers of Scheduled Caste (SC)
Communities inhabited in almost every districts of Odisha. According
to the Census 2011, the SC population in Odisha was 71.88 lakhs which
has steadly risen since independence. To achieve the Goal 10 of
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), suitable and sustainable plans
and programmes are being formulated and implemented for SCs who
are socially and economically backward population. For formulation of
realistic and suitably planning for SCs, the disaggregated data of SC
population is required by administrators, planners and researchers.