Report of the Socially and Educationally Backward Class Commission
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GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT REPORT OF THE SOCIALLY AND EDUCATIONALLY BACKWARD CLASS COMMISSION VOL. II NIEPA DC SN0103 GUJARAT STATE 1976 5 o REPORT OF THE SOCIALLY AND EDUCATIONALLY BACKWARD CLASS COMMISSION V O L U M E II. IList of Appendices. Pages A ppendix N o. I Government Resolution, Education and Labour Department No. 1 MBC-1572-67508-J, dated the 8th August 1972, regarding constitution of the Commission and its terms of reference. A ppendix N o. II Questionnaire No. 1 4 A ppendix N o. III Questionnaire No. 2. 8 A ppendix N o. IV Questionnaire No. 3 22 A ppendix N o. V Questionnaire No. 4 25 A ppendix N o. VI. (a) Form of houselisting in urban blocks; rural villages, 33 (b) Questionnaire No. 5 34 Appendix No. VII Questionnaire No. 6 44 A ppendix N o. VIII Questionnaire No. 7 51 Appendix No. IX. List of the Meetings of the Commission, the Advisory Committee and the Expert Committee. 53 A ppendix N o. X. (a) List of the. Nomadic Tnbts iv. GuyirM. State {Vide G overn ment Resolution, E& LD No. DNTW-2062-C 505-G,dated the 30th March 1963) 55 (b) List of the De-notified Tribes in Gujarat State (Vide. Government Resolution, E&LD No. DNTW-2062-C 505-G, dated the 30th March, 1963) 55 A ppendix N o. X I. (a) Notifications issued by the Kathiawar Agency and the ex- Princely States of Rajkot and Cambay declaring certain tribes as Criminal Tribes and placing restrictions on them. 56 (b) Notifications issued by the ex-Princely State of Cambay for enforcement of Primary education. 60 A ppendix No. XII List of castes, classes and groups who have sent written repre sentations and/or appeared before the Commission. .. 62 A ppendix N o. XIII List of names of representatives of castes, classes and groups who have sent replies to Questionnaire No. 2 64 A ppendix No. X IV . List of names of experts to whom Questionnaire No. 3 was sent... 72 A ppendix No. XV List of Members of Parliament (Gujarat) and Members of Gujarat Legislative Assembly, Officers and Social Workers, who sent replies to Questionnaire No. 4. 74 A ppendix N o. XVI List of district and taluka places where meetings of the Commi ssion were held for collection of evidence. 76 A ppendix N o. XVII List of names of representatives of castes, classes or groups, who have given evidence before the Commission. 78 A ppendix N o. XVIII List of Social Workers, officials and non-officials, who gave evidence before the Commission. 133 Appendix No. XIX Sampling plan for the socio-economic household sample survey. 159 A ppendix No. X X Demographic data and education level by caste/group (Survey 169 Table No. 1) -9a-(i) ii Pages Appendix No. XXI Highest education achieved by a member and level of education of male/female in households by caste/group ( Survey Table No. 2) 175 Appendix No. XXII Population distribution of child-marriage and reasons for leaving schools by caste/group. ( Survey Table No. 3) 180 Appendix No. XXIII Distribution of households by caste/group for social custom ( existence of social custom) (Survey Table No. 4 ) 183 Appendix No. XXIV Distribution of households by caste/group for social custom ( custom exists and should not be changed )( Survey Table No. 5 ) 186 Appendix No. XXV Distribution of households by caste/group for social custom ( custom exists and should be changed) ( Survey Table No. 6) 189 Appendix No. XXVI Distribution of households by caste/group for social custom ( custom does not exist and should be introduced) ( Survey Table No. 7) 192 Appendix No. XXVII Distribution of households by caste/group for social custom ( custom does not exist and should not be introduced) ( Survey Table No. 8) 195 Appendix No. XXVIII Distribution of households by caste/group for sources of income and economic data ( Survey Table No. 9) 198 Appendix No. XXIX Distribution of households by caste/group for economic status and expenditure data (Survey Table No. 10) 201 Appendix No. XXX Distribution of households by caste/group for type of residence, utensils and articles of daily use (Survey Table No. 11 ) 204 Appendix No. XXXI Distribution of households by caste/group for data on life-style. ( Survey Table No. 12.) 207 Appendix No. XXXII Distribution of households according to opinions on education and marriage. ( Survey Table No. 13) .. 210 Appendix No. XXXIII Distribution of households by caste for reasons of backward ness in caste/group (Survey Table No. 14) 213 Appendix No. XXXIV Distribution of households for caste/group according to owner ship of land. (Survey Table No. 15) .. 216 Appendix No. XXXV Number of hoseholds by caste/group owning 99 heads of live stocks and total number of livestocks owned by categories of livestocks and number of households reporting 99 or more live stocks (Survey Table No. 16) 219 Appendix No. XXXVI Distribution of households by caste according to highest level of education attained by any member in a household ( House- listing Table No. 1 ) 222 Appendix No. XXXVII Distribution of households by caste according to occupation of head of household, percentage of household in first four ranks according to the number of households in various occupational group ( Houselisting Table No. 2) 237 Appendix No. XXXVIII List of administrative staff and the survey staff of the Commission 249 Appendix No. XXXIX Bibliography 253 APPENDIX—I Commission to go and inquire into the problems of Social and Educational backwardness of certain class, sections or groups of people in the State other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes-Constitution o f the— GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT E d u c a t io n a n d L a b o u r D e p a r t m e n t Resolution No. MBC-1572-67508-J, Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar, dated the 8th August, 1972. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have been defined in Articles 341 and 342 of the Consti tution of India respectively. Article 46 of the Constitution enjoins the State Government to promote with special care the educational and economic interest of the weaker section of the people and particularly of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and to protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploi tation. Articles 15(4) and 16(4) enable the State to make special provision for the advancement of socially, educationally backward and other Weaker Sections of Citizens and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. There are other Articles of the Constitution also which are intended to make special provisions for promoting welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. 2. These special provisions in the Constitution proceed on the recognition of extreme social, educational and economic backwardness of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the need to make special efforts for their advancement and welfare. In pursuance of these provisions, the State Governments have made and are making special schemes for socio-economic uplift, health, housing, agriculture etc. for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. 3. The Nomadic and Denotified Tribes are also being treated as a distinct section and specific group of Backward Classes and as such the special provision is being made for them in the developmental plan under the fully centrally sponsored programme. In the very nature of things, the plan programme cannot, however, provide for protecting their interests in other fields i.e. recruitment in services, priority in allot ment of land and such other activities falling outside the scope of developmental programmes. These Tribes are claiming to be socially and educationally backward and asking for benefits similar to those being extended to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. 4. Besides the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes there are other categories of citizens or class or groups amongst them or parts thereof in the State who are also claiming to be educationally and socially backward and can be regarded as weaker sections of the community. These people have approached the State Government to grant them the concessions as are being granted to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. 5. The preferential treatment and special concessions claimed for by them and Nomadic Tribes and Denotified Tribes are not possible to be complied with unless it is established that they are socially and educationally backward. Protection and preference in matters like entry into Government services, relaxation in age limit, reservation in posts, admission quota in educational institutions and similar other concessions being granted to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, cannot be granted to any person or group of persons solely on the consideration of caste, creed, race, religion or any of them in view of the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, etc. made in Article 15(1) of the Constitution. Clause (4) of Article 15, however, constitutes an exception to the above provision and permits the State to make any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, notwithstanding anything contained in other clauses of Article 15 or Article 29 of the Constitution. The provision of Article 15 (4) and directive principles of the State policy in Article 46 and the preamble to the Constitution are to secure to all citizens of the country justice; social economic and political. In the light of the provisions of these Articles, the State can make any special provision for any class of citizen if it is convinced that it is socially, educationally and in other way back ward and deserve of special treatment. 6. The State Government feels that the demands made by them deserve consideration but in order however, to protect or grant of preferential treatment or concessions to any tribles, caste, or section, or group of people, it is necessary to ascertain whether they are socially, educationally and in other ways backward.