Importance Of Education Of Schedule Caste

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Education of Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and other backward classes.
Answer: The education system in India for Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and other backward classes are based social context and current educational situation, free education for primary schools in villages, scholarships, reservations, etc. In this assignment we will first discus about what are SC ,ST and OBC and also the education system of three places that is Kamtha, L.Khengjang and Tripura. This will help us to understand some macro mechanism of education for every students but especially for ST, SC and OBC children.
THE SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND CURRENT EDUCATIONAL SITUATION
The Scheduled Castes
The Scheduled Castes constitute around …show more content…

Scheduled Tribes who inhabit isolated mountainous regions were not appropriated into the agriculture based kingdoms of the plains, in the absence of easy communication and transport facilities. Kosambi identifies the spread of Brahmanism and its rigid subordination of individual to social function with the spread of a more productive agrarian order. According to the Census of 2001, the Scheduled Tribes, constitute 8.1% of the Indian population. In absolute terms, this comes to some 83.6 million people, classified under 461 different communities. They are spread over the entire country but are most heavily concentrated in central, eastern and north-eastern India. Two broad types of scheduling viz. area based and community based exist for tribes. Areas under the Fifth Schedule belong to nine major states of western and central region extending from Maharashtra on the West to Jharkhand in the East. Vulnerable tribal populations of some states are left out however, such as in West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The Sixth Schedule applies to tribal areas in states of the North East.

Other Backward Class (OBC)
OBC is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes which are socially and educationally disadvantaged. It is one of several official classifications of the population of India, along with Scheduled Castes and Scheduled …show more content…

approved hostels and Ashrams schools, and in some states also for children in regular schools; iii) Free education at all levels; iv) Pre-matric stipends and scholarships to students at middle and/or high school stage;
v) Special scheme of pre-matric scholarships for children of castes and families engaged in unclean occupations like scavenging, tanning and flaying of animal skin; vi) Girls and boys hostels for SC/ST students and lodging facilities in hostels of backward classes including SC/ST; vii) Ashram schools for tribal children started with the intention of overcoming the difficulties of provision in remote regions and also rather patronizingly to provide an environment “educationally more conducive” than the tribal habitat. In addition, several states have instituted schemes such as scholarships to SC students studying in private schools, merit scholarships, attendance scholarships for girls, special school attendance prizes, and remedial coaching classes, reimbursement of excursion expenses and provision of mid-day

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