The Study of Literacy Rate among the Scheduled Castes Population in Haryana (2001-2011)

Abstract

Literacy is one of the important aspect of demographic studies and essential for the socio-economic and political development, especially for the poor and backward group of population of any region or country. Among the social group, the scheduled castes are considered as backward group of society in India and governments (both central and state) launches and run various programmes and schemes for the upliftment of these groups. In the present paper an attempt has been made to bring out the pattern of literacy rate in the scheduled castes population of Haryana, which is one of the economically developed state in India.

Key words- Literacy rate, Scheduled Castes (SCs), Haryana