Educational Status & Mobility of Scheduled caste women in Rural area

NEED FOR THE STUDY The traditional Indian society has remained for ages, as hierarchically frozen and segmented into differentially ranked caste groups on the notions of purity and pollutions. Thus, the Indian caste system based on the notion of purity and pollution believed that the SC/ST and other backward classes were impure and polluted. As a result, they were forced to live outside the village/town proper and suffered from discrimination in all walks of life. SC/ST and other backward classes are lagging behind occupationally, educationally and politically. They also suffered from socio-economic and cultural disabilities. It is an accepted fact that after the Independence, a small number of persons belonging to the SC/ST and other backward classes have benefited from the ¿protective discrimination¿ regarding education, employment in government departments, and politics. These persons are placed in different and probably better socio-economic positions like the persons of other castes.