Scheduled Castes definition
Examples of Scheduled Castes in a sentence
While engaging the contractual manpower, Service Provider is required to make effort to provide opportunity of employment to the people belonging to Scheduled Castes and weaker sections of society also in order to have a fair representation of these sections.
Tribes The scheduling and de-scheduling of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes residing within the Bodo areas will be done as per the Commission appointed by the Government of India under the Constitution.
Mode 3 and 4: - Special treatment may be provided to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and weaker sections of society, as laid down in the Constitution of India as well as various legislation.
Almost 58% of the population in Bihar is under the age of 25, and nearly 16% of the Bihar population comprises Scheduled Castes while less than 1% comprises Scheduled Tribes (UNDP, 2014).
The term ‘Dalit’ has, since around the 1970’s, come to refer to the ex-Untouchable population in India, formerly described in administrative settings as Depressed Castes, Exterior Castes, Outcastes, Backward Castes, and Scheduled Castes (though Backward Caste and Scheduled Caste continue to be used as terms in administrative government today).