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Free education to Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students as determined by lottery. [58] [59] Akankshya Yojana: 21 December 2015: SC&ST Development & Minorities & Backward Classes welfare Department: Tribal Development: Hostels for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in higher education fields [60] [61] Ahar Yojana
The government soon denied Panos the ST status and hundreds of Pano government employees were fired for falsifying caste certificates. These tensions would culminate in the Kandhamal Riots , when, after the murder of Saraswati which was claimed to be done by Christians, [ a ] mobs of tribals and non-tribals attacked Pano settlements and ...
This is a list of Scheduled Castes in India. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are those considered the most socio-economic disadvantaged in India, and are officially defined in the Constitution of India in order to aid equality initiatives.
Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India that was established during the British rule.Based on provisions in the Indian Constitution, it allows the Union Government and the States and Territories of India to allocate a specific percentage of reserved quotas or seats, in higher education admissions, employment, political bodies, etc., for "socially and economically backward citizens".
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Khandayat, also spelled Khandait, is a cultivating caste, [2] [3] as well as a peasant militia [3] or landed militia caste from Odisha, East India. [4] [5] Some of them had earlier served as feudal chiefs as well as zamindars apart from being land holders and agriculturalists.
Jalia Kaibarta (or Jaliya Kaibartta, or: Jāliya Kaibbarta, possibly also: Jalia Kaibartya) is a community comprising people of low ritual status, fishermen, who later acquired respectable caste identities within the larger Hindu fold, helped by their commercial prosperity and Vaishnavite affiliations, through Sanskritisation. [1]
The 2022 Bihar Caste Based Survey was notified by the Government of Bihar on 6 June 2022 by gazette notification after a Supreme Court ruling. [3] [4] The survey was conducted in two phases, house listing and caste and economic enumeration. The data collection for the survey began on 7 January 2023 and the data was released on 2 October 2023.