Socio-Economic Development of The Scheduled Castes With Special Reference To Agricultural Landless Babours In Amravati Division

Economist’s tend to define growth as an annual increase in NNP – i.e. GNP-Depreciation whereas they denote development as an increase in per capita increase in output of labour without a commensuration fall in the level of employment 70% of India’s population in 1947 lived off the agricultural sector and in 2008 the percentage figure had fallen to a mere 69%. This is what makes a study of rural economies so important. In India moreover the concept of farmer and peasant is blurred due to the joint family system and country that speaker of Secularism in one breathe and talks of an SC-ST class in another commits a grave contradiction A country with a 1.2 billion strong population is among the G-12 countries and yet the number of people living below the poverty line remains highest in the world nevertheless this fuzziners is the social environment give rise to conditions wherein appropriation of surplus value and the accompanying exploitation of labour is made so much easy. This paper attempts a liberal solution to landless labour, oppressed social classes and exploited means of production it opines that it is the state that must intervene and bring about an equalitarian solution to this equality and pass such laws as may be necessary to achieve this goal.The scheduled caste for historical reasons emained Socially and economically backward since ancient period they faced problems such as untouchability social and economic discrimination , mequality and poverty. Thus, this deprived social group do not have enough economic opportunities to earn for livelihood though gain full employment and do not have social, educational and political status in society. In absence of this they become dependent on the better of sections of society particularly rural landowning clites, Vislandlords, Zamindars and remain neglected in the economic and social spheres. In the rural economy, land is the pivotal property both in terms in income and employment, around which the Socio-economic Privileges and deprivations revolve poor land ownership position of the scheduled castes, it accounts largely for their soci-economic backwardness.

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