Released on July 3, 2015 , the result of the
first such Census in independent India - the last one was conducted in 1932 -
did not include caste-specific data despite the title saying so.
It said that of the total about 24.39 crore
households in India, nearly 17.91 crore are in rural areas.
Of the rural households, 18.46% belong to a
Scheduled Caste & 10.97% to a Schedule Tribe while 68.5% belong to ‘other
categories’.
Interestingly, more than 36.5 lakh families (a
little over 2%) belong to no caste or / tribe category.
5 States with a high percentage of rural SC
households are Punjab, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar
Pradesh.
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