CENSUS OF INDIA 1981 SERIES 26 CHANDIGARH PART-IX SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES ARDAMAN SINGH Director of Census Operations, Chandigarh CONTENTS Pages FOREWARD (v) PREFACE (vii) General Note Note on Table SCot 5 Table SC- J: Industrial category of Main workers, Marginal workers, Non-workers and Seekingfavailable for work by sex for Scheduled Castes (For each caste separately) 6 Note on Table SC-2 23 Table SC-2: Industrial category of work of marginal workers of Scheduled Castes by seeking/available, Not-seeking! available for work and sex (For each caste separately) 24 Note on Table SC-3 29 Table SC·3: Marginal workers and Non-workers by sex, type of activity and educational level for Scheduled Castes (All Scheduled Castes combined) 30 Note on Table SC-4 37 Table SC·4: Marginal workers of Scheduled Castes by main activity cross-classified by industrial category of marginal work and sex (All Scheduled Castes combined) 38 Note on Table SC·S 43 Table SC-S: Age and marital status for Scheduled Castes-All areas (For each caste separately) 44 Note on Table SC-6 61 Table SC-6 Part A: Educational levels of Scheduled Castes-Urban Areas (For each caste separately) 62 Part B: Educational levels of Scheduled Castes-Rural Areas (For each caste separately) 70 (iii) FOREWORD Our Constitution provides certain safe guards for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Such communities are notified by a Presidential Order. For the purpose of the 1981 Census, the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1976 was adopted. The salient features of this Act have been given in the General Note. The data, thus collected were processed on computer and the special tables for the Scheduled Castes have been generated and published in the hope that these will be useful for the planning and implementation of welfare measures in respect of these socially and economically handicapped communities. NEW DELHI V.S. VERMA April 6. 1988 Registrar Genera'. India (v) PREFACE The processing of data collected during the 1981 Census for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes was planned to be carried out on computer on full count. This volume contains the special tables for Scheduled Castes only as no Scheduled Tribe is notified in this Union Teritory. The tables presented in this volume for Scheduled Castes are more or less on the same pattern as adopted in 1971 census with additional information based on the new concepts adopted in 198 I Census. The Director of Census Operations, Shri Ardaman Singh, under whose guidance the entire operations were carried out, deserves all credit for the success of the operations. But he had to leave the Organisation because of his superannuation before the volume in question could be made ready for the press. I must record my deepest sense of gratitude to Suri P. Padmauabha, ex- Registrar General, India and Shri V. S. Verma, Registrar General, India for their valuable guidance and sincere help to us at every stage to bring out this publication in time. I also thank the officers and staff of the Data Processing Division, Census Division and Printing Division of the office of the Registrar General. lndia associated with this task. The processing of the data was undertaken by the Data Processing Division of the Registrar General's Office under the able guidance of S/Shri A. Sen Gupta, Joint Dire::ltor <Data Processing), K. R. Unni, Joint Director (Programming) with the help of their staff. The Census Division had taken over the responsibility of scrutiny of the tables, preparation of General Note and fly-leaves of this publication and this work was very ably carried out under the supervision of Shri N. Rama Rao, Assistant Registrar General (Census & Tabulation), Shri P.C. Pande, Research Officer with the help of his team of able assistants took keen interest in finalising the tables and getting them ready fer printing. CHANDIGARH S.P. GROVER April 4, 1988 Deputy Director of Census Operations (vii) SPECIAL TABLES FOR SCHEDULED CASTES GENERAL NOTE The present volume provides data pertaining to individual Scheduled <Astes. The 1981; Census Scheduled Castes special tables covered under Part-IX give the data c,>n industrial categories of mail;! ~orkers, marginal workers, type of activity of marginal workers and non-workers. age, sex, marital status, ~ducationallevels etc., for each caste. This Union Territory being a uni-district Union Territory, the dis,trict figures are the same as that of Union Territory. Most of the tables included in, this volume correspond to those published in Part-V-A Volume of 1971. A few more tables relating to Marginal ~Qrk:Frs and in respect of those seeking/available for work have also been. introduced for the first time in, the 1981 Census. Schedule,. Castes and Seheduled Tribes . In the Indian censuses prior to 1931. information w~s coJIected and published for each caste or tribe separately. In the 1931 census, tabulation of data for individual communities was limited to: (i) exterior castes, (ii) primitive castes and (iii) aU other castes with the exception of (a) those whose members fell short of four per thousand of the total population and (b) those for which separate figures weh~ deemed to the unnecessary by the local government. In the 1941 Census, ·group totals' were tabulated for Scbedwled CastesJTribes and Anglo-Indians. Separate totals were furnished only for a few stlecttd individual tribes. When preparations for the 1951 census were undertaken, the Government of India had already accepted the policy of official discouragement of community districtions based on caste. They decided, thelefolQ •. ~at DO seneral ~e, caste or tribe enquiries should be made but an enquiry should be made regardiJ)1 race, caste 01' tribo only to the extent necessary for providing information relating to certain special,fQups of the people- who are referred to ill, the Constitution of India. The relevant Articles are extracted below : Scheduled Castes 341(1): The President may with respect to any State, and where it is a State specified in Part A or Part B of the First Schedule, after consultation with the Governor Of Rajpramukh thereof, by public notification, spe~ify. the. castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within castes, races or tribes which shan for th~ pqrposes ()f this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Castes in relation to that State. .' 34t(2): ParHament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Castes specified in ~fnodfi&tidtr inned under clause (1) any caste, race Of tribe or part of or group within any caste, rftc~ 'cit tribe, '&tit save as afOresaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent hotifieation. Sdetlaled TrilJes .:' '341(1): The President may with respect to any State, and where it is a State specified in Part A 0r'an B of the first Schedule. after consultation with the Governor or Rajpramukh thereof, by public ~~C4tfon, specify the tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within tribes or tribal communi­ ==.~~~ ~?t the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to '. •" ~. _ J _ _ T r ) 1 2 342(2): Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the Jist of Scheduled Tribes specified in a notification issued under clause (l) any tribe or tribal community or part of or group within any tribe or tribal community, but save as aforesaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent notification. From the 1951 census onwards the census questionnaire contains items of enquiry to ascertain wbethe the respondent belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe and jf yes, the name of tbe Scheduled Caste/Tribe to which he belongs with a view to collecting information for discharging the Constitutional obligations towards these communities. In the Individual Slip (Universal) adopted for the ]9~] Census, question 9 makes an enquiry about the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe status and question IO about the name of the specific Scheduled Caste/Tribe. Likewise, question 3 of the household schedule enquires whether the head of the household belongs to a Scheduled Caste or Schedule Tribe and question 4, the name of the Scheduled Caste/Tribe of the head of the household, if the answer to question 3 is in the affirmative. The statutory lists of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are notified in pursuance of Articles 341 and 342 of the Constitution. The lists of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were notified for the first time under the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, the Codstitution (Scheduled Castes) (Part C States) Order. 1951, and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) (Part C States) Order, 1951. These lists have been modified or amended or supple­ mented from time to time. On the reorganisation of the States, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Lists (Modification), Order came into force from 29th October, 1956. Thereafter, a few orders specifying Scheduled Castes/Tribes in respect of a few individual states also came into force. For in­ stance, the Constitution (Jammu & Kashmir) Scheduled Castes Order was issued in 1956. while the Constitution (Dadra & Nagar HaveJi) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders were issued in 1962. In Uttar Pradesh the Scheduled Tribes were notified for the first time in 1967 vide the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) (Uttar Pradesh) Order, 1967. Likewise, the Constitution (Pondicherry) Scheduled Castes Order was enforced in 1964. In the case of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman & Diu, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Order was issued in 1968. Likewise, the Constitution (Nagaland) Scheduled Tribes Order came into force in 1970.