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This articles contains a list Scheduled Caste communities and their population according to the 2011 Census of India in the state of Gujarat. [1] They constitutes the population of 40,74,447 or 6.74% of total population of the state. The Government of Gujarat recognises 35 castes under the category. [2]
Other Backward Castes, excluding Muslim OBCs, comprised 48% of the total population of Gujarat. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] 147 communities were considered to be OBCs at the time of the election. [ 9 ] Scheduled tribes (primarily Adivasis ) comprised 15.5% of the population, while scheduled castes ( Dalits ) totalled 7%.
The Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify communities that are "educationally or socially backward" (i.e., disadvantaged). It is one of several official classifications of the population of India, along with general castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs).
Patidars represents 12.3% of the population of Gujarat. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The SEBC (later the OBC) list initially comprised 81 communities, which by 2014 had expanded to 146 communities. [ 11 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In the 1980s the proportion of reserved seats was 10%; by 2014 it had increased to 27%.
Over 48 per cent of the Indian rural population is female. [66] 44.72 crore Indians are non-literate, more than a third of its 121.08 crore population. [67] Transgender people comprise 0.1% of India's rural population. The Andaman and Nicobar islands, West Bengal, Gujarat, Odisha and Mizoram have the highest proportions of transgender people.
The population of Gujarat in the 2011 Census of India was 60,439,692. Of this, 8,917,174 people belong to one of the Scheduled Tribes (STs), constituting 14.75 percent of the total population. The state registered 21.4 percent growth in the Scheduled Tribe population between 1991 and 2001. [1]
Koli caste of Gujarat The Thakor Koli, or Thakore Koli, is a subcaste of the Koli caste of Gujarat. Koli people form the largest caste-cluster in Gujarat, comprising 24 per cent of the total population of the state. Koli Thakors in Gujarat are classified as Other Backward Class (OBC). During his tenure, the former chief minister, Koli community member Madhav Singh Solanki, included all Koli ...
In 1962 the first Gujarat Legislative Assembly was elected with 154 seats. In 1966 the number was raised to 166. In 1971 the number was raised to 182. In 1976 the government imposed a moratorium on further changes until after the 2001 Census of India. [1]