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The lower OBCs form around 35% of the population in Uttar Pradesh. OBC sub-categorisation has already been implemented at state level by 11 states: West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir region and Haryana, and the union territory of Puducherry. [31]
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]
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 ...
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]
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%.
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 India as per 2011 census was 1,210,854,977. [31] India added 181.5 million to its population since 2001, slightly lower than the population of Brazil. India, with 2.4% of the world's surface area, accounts for 17.5% of its population. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state with roughly 200 million people.
In India, the Other Backward Caste (OBC) status invokes affirmative action which provides reserved quotas in education and government jobs.In Gujarat, 27% of the seats in government and education are reserved for OBC, 7.5% for Scheduled Castes and 15% for Scheduled Tribes for a total of 49.5% of all seats.