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The table has 22 castes designated as Schedule Caste in Bihar as of their population as ... Population %age of total SC population Bantar: 101,223 0.78% Bauri: 2,096 ...
Manihari (ST) 68 Barari: 69 Korha (SC) 12 Purnia: 70 Alamnagar: Madhepura (4) 13 Madhepura: 71 Bihariganj: 72 Singheshwar (SC) 8 Supaul: 73 Madhepura: 13 Madhepura: 74 Sonbarsha (SC) Saharsa (4) 75 Saharsa: 76 Simri Bakhtiarpur: 25 Khagaria: 77 Mahishi: 13 Madhepura: 78 Kusheshwar Asthan (SC) Darbhanga (10) 23 Samastipur: 79 Gaura Bauram: 14 ...
Santosh Kumar Suman was Minister of Minor Irrigation and SC/ST Welfare in the Government of Bihar in the Seventh Nitish Kumar ministry from 16 November 2020 to 9 August 2022. Also, he was Minister of SC/ST Welfare in the Government of Bihar in the Eighth Nitish Kumar ministry from 16 August 2022 to 13 June 2023.
State Mahadalit Commission is a government body set up by the Government of Bihar to identify the castes within Scheduled Castes who lagged behind in the development process and to study educational and social status and to suggest measures for their upliftment. The commission was set up in 2007.
Several seats in the Parliament of India, State Assemblies, urban and rural-level institutions are reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). These reserved seats are elected by all voters in a constituency, without a separate electorate. A member of an SC/ST is not debarred from contesting a general (i.e. non-reserved) seat.
Atrocities continued to increase in ferocity and frequency – for example, in Bihar the massacres of Dalits at Belchi in 1979 and at Pipra in 1980; in Uttar Pradesh the massacre following a Dalit bridegroom riding on horseback at Kafalta in 1980; in Madhya Pradesh the killing of Bacchdas in Mandsaur district in 1982; in Bihar the killing in ...
A bicameral system of legislature was introduced according to the act. On 22 July 1936, the first Bihar legislative council was set up. It had 30 members and Rajiv Ranjan Prasad was the chairman. The first joint session of the two houses of the Bihar Assembly took place on 22 July 1937. Ram Dayalu Singh was elected as the speaker of the Bihar ...
Dalits in Bihar are a social group composed of many Scheduled Castes, placed at the bottom of the "caste-based social order". The Dalits also include some of the erstwhile untouchable castes, who suffered various forms of oppression in the feudal - agrarian society of Bihar.