Socio-economic and Caste Census-2011 (SECC-2011)

In Indian Geography, the SECC-2011 maps socio-economic and caste profiles of India’s households, revealing disparities across states like Uttar Pradesh. It guides policies for inclusive development.

Introduction

  • The first caste-based census was conducted in the year 1931.
  • The 2011 census is the first socio-economic and caste-based census after independence. 
  • It was started on 29 June 2011 from ‘Sankhola village’ of West Tripura.
  • While the general census is conducted under the aegis of the Census Commissioner under the Ministry of Home Affairs, SECC was conducted by the Ministry of Rural Development and Planning Commission (present Niti Aayog).
  • The ‘Hashim Committee’ was invited for the survey of the urban part of SECC, while the ‘Saxena Committee’ was invited for the survey of the rural part (for methodology).
  • Through this, beneficiaries of various government schemes will be correctly identified (by abandoning the earlier BPL formula) and policies will be formulated and implemented as per the demand for different sections of society (economic and social).
  • C, while the ‘Saxena Committee’ was invited for the survey of the rural part (for methodology).
  • Through this, beneficiaries of various government schemes will be correctly identified (by abandoning the earlier BPL formula) and policies will be formulated and implemented as per the demand for different sections of society (economic and social).

SECC : Rural

Self-excluded families -Holding income/property as follows:-

  • Vehicle
  • Kisan Credit Card with limit of Rs 50,000 or more
  • Government employee member
  • Any member with income of more than Rs 10,000
  • Income tax payee
  • Profession tax payee
  • Pucca house with more than three rooms
  • Refrigerator
  • Landline phone
  • Irrigated land above the limit
  • Self-included families
  • Refugee/homeless families
  • Unemployed/charity dependent
  • Manual sanitation workers
  • Freed from bonded labour
  • Primitive tribal groups
  • The most deprived families will be considered first in terms of inclusion in the BPL list and providing them the benefits of government welfare schemes.
  • In this way, the data of Socio-economic and Caste Census (SECC) will be used by the government
    • to run economic and social development activities, reduce dependence on old poverty line formulas (such as Suresh Tendulkar formula), save resources, bring transparency and correctly identify the beneficiaries.

Introduction

  1. Out of a total of 24.4 crore families, 17.9 crore (73.3%) belong to rural areas. Out of 17.9 crore rural families, 10.7 crore families are considered deprived.
  2. 13% of rural families live in kutcha houses or huts.
  3. 30% of rural families who have a house but no agricultural land are engaged in physical labour.
  4. 36% of the villagers are illiterate, and among the remaining 64% literate people, about 21 percent have not even completed primary education.
  5. About 1.80 lakh families are forced to do manual scavenging for their livelihood. Their distribution in the states in decreasing order of numbers is- Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Karnataka and Punjab respectively.
  6. 0.1 percent of India’s population falls under the homosexual category.

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