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Unemployment Among Marginalised GroupsDr. Shyam Sunder Singh Chauhan
Dr. Deepa Rawat
Dr. Kusum Sharma
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes among social groups and Muslims
among religious communities are the most deprived and marginalized groups in India.
Scheduled castes and Scheduled Tribes are far behind their counterpart non-
Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in almost all the socio-economic indicators. So is
the case with the Muslims who lag far behind their counterpart non-Muslims. These
marginalized groups are educationally backward, semi-skilled or unskilled and
professionally degraded so their employability in respectable professions of high
income generation is very limited. In the context of socio-economic deprivation of
marginalized groups, the present paper focuses on the nature of employment and
unemployment of these groups.
The paper is divided into five sections – namely, Introduction, Nature of
deprivation in terms of Socio-economic Indicators; Level of Employment of
Marginalised Groups, Causes of Unemployment of Marginalised Groups and
Conclusion.
Methodology :
The present analysis is based on secondary data received from Planning
Commission and National Sample Survey Organisation. Data of 66 th round NSS is
used extensively. Indicators such as literacy rate, educational level, enrolment ratio,
drop out ratio, IMR, MMR and nutritional status have been used to assess the level of
deprivation. The economic deprivation has been assessed by using the poverty head
count ratio, assets holdings, land ownership and incidence of indebtedness etc. As faras the employment is concerned Labour Force Participation Rates (LFPR) and Work
Force Participation rates (WFPR) by Principal and Subsidiary Status have been used.
INTRODUCTION
Indian society is traditionally divided into various social groups. Caste and
class system has been in vogue since times immemorial. The rigid caste system has
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Government Girls P.G. College, Sirsaganj, Firozabad (U.P.)Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Agra College, Agra (U.P.)Associate Professor, Department of Education, Sant B.D. Jain P.G. College, Agra (U.P.)
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divided the entire society into two classes i.e. the upper caste and the lower caste.
This system has further divided the occupational pattern of the labour force in so
called ‘white collared jobs’, earmarked for upper caste and the ‘ blue collared jobs ’ or
rather the unrespectable jobs, reserved for the so called lower strata of the society.
The caste system has finally resulted into a system of exploitation based on the power
of knowledge, money and force. The people of lower castes were exploited considerably
by the powerful sections of the society. They have been deprived of not only their
fundamental rights but also all sorts of necessities required for their survival and
development.
The employment pattern developed during the past was heavily tilted in favour
of ‘the haves’ ignoring the needs of the ‘have nots’. Majority of the people of the
deprived class were and are engaged in low paid works which are casual in nature,having no guarantee of the permanency and remuneration in wages. Virtually these
groups have not only been marginalized in socio-economic status but also in
occupational pattern. With the enactment of the Indian constitution a portion of the
public sector jobs was reserved for these marginalized groups such as Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Likewise the reservation facilities was also given in
educational institutions, during the early 1990s, other backward castes came into
prominence and were successful in obtaining the benefits of the reservation policy in
jobs as well as educational institutions. However, the Muslims have so far not been
given due weightage in the public sector jobs. Sachchar Committee Report very
emphatically exposed the ground realities of the under development of Muslims.
Among social groups, SCs, STs and OBCs accounted for 80 per cent of the
rural poor in 2004-05, considerably more than their share in the rural population
(GOI). In 2004-05, while the head count ratio of the poor in the total population was
28.3 per cent among the SCs, it was 38.8 per cent, in urban areas, the HCR overall
was 25.7 per cent but among SCs it was even higher than in rural areas at nearly 40per cent (Planning Commission, 2008). The proportion of ST population among the
rural population living in poverty, was about 15 per cent in 2004-05, double that of
their share in the total population in the country. What is peculiar is that in 2004-05
the incidence of poverty among the STs had barely fallen compared to a decade earlier
and it was 20 percentage points higher for the SCs for the rest of the population
(Planning Commission, 2008). It is pertinent to note that the poverty head count ratio
of the STs (47.3%) is higher than that of SCs (36.8%). The STs are more poor in rural
areas as compared to their counterpart SCs and non- SCs/STs while in urban areas
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the SCs are worst placed as compared to their counterpart STs and non- SCs/STs.
The real cause of poverty among SCs and STs lies in the unequal distribution of
assets and occupational structure. In rural areas SCs do not have access to land and
other economic resources and are, therefore, forced to migrate to urban areas more
often. These migrated SC labourers get low quality jobs, casual in nature and poorly
paid, because of this, they are poor. Although the STs in rural areas have much better
access to land, especially in the forest areas, but the quality of land and its
productivity is low, which in turn yields low income. In terms of both income poverty
and other indicators of human development – such as education and health, the STs
are at the bottom. The increasing concentration of tribal’s among those who suffer
from multiple deprivations, is a matter of concern.
The occupational pattern of rural and urban areas shows the multipledeprivations of the poor mostly from SCs and STs. Among SCs, 47 per cent were
cultivators and more than 25 per cent were agricultural labourers. About 6 to 7 per
cent of the SCs were artisan households. Although SCs account for 21.6 per cent of
the rural households, they held only 9 per cent of the land. On average SCs barely
owned 0.3 per cent hectare of land in rural areas as compared to 1.003 per cent
hectare owned by others. The land distribution is even further skewed among SCs in
urban areas, because of paucity of funds and assets. The SCs and STs are not able to
acquire income generating assets likewise they are not able to borrow funds from
public sector financial institutions. Due to these age old problems the SCs and STs
are neither able to start no their own business or able to get a permanent job
(Planning Commission, 2008).
The vulnerability of marginalized groups on the front of health, education and
nutrition, reduces their capacity as well as capability to work efficiently. While infant
mortality rate was 49 for others, for SCs it was 66, for STs 62 and OBCs 57. Their
nutritional status is also worse; the Mean Body Mass Index (BMI) for SCs, STs andOBCs is 5 to 10 per cent below that of their counterparts (Planning Commission,
2008).
Although the gross enrolment ratio at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of
education has increased during the past 60 years for SCs, STs and Muslims, it is still
far below than that of their counterparts. The dropout rate is significantly higher
among SCs and STs. The higher dropout rate among marginalized groups is the result
of the high incidence of poverty amongst them which forces the people from these
groups to employ their children at tender age. The incidence of child labour is much
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higher among SCs and STs as compared to their counterparts, OBCs and non
SC/ST/OBCs.
LEVEL OF EMPLOYMENT OF MARGINALISED GROUPS
Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) and Workforce Participation Rates(WFPR) are the most commonly used indicators of employment. The incidence of
employment based on these two indicators is further assessed on the basis of usual
principal and subsidiary status, weekly status (CWS) and current daily basis. During
the 66 th round NSS the employment data has been vigorously used by usual principal
and subsidiary basis. The sub group on Creation of Employment opportunities
constitution under the chairmanship of Dr. Santosh Mehrotra analysed the
employment and unemployment scenario for marginalized groups. Using the data of
66 th NSS and found that the labour force participation by usual principal and
subsidiary status for SCs, STs and all groups decreased both in rural and urban
areas between 1993-94 to 2009-10. For SCs, LFPR by usual principal and subsidiary
status was 71.8 per cent in rural areas during 1993-94, for STs it was 81.9 per cent
and for all groups 68.6 per cent. These ratios came down to 62.4, 69.9 and 60.4 per
cent respectively during 2009-10. Likewise in urban areas the LFPR came down from
59.4 to 53.5 per cent for SCs, 59.3 to 51.5 per cent for STs and 53.5 to 48.8 per cent
for all groups. What is disturbing here is that the percentage point decrease between
1993-94 to 2009-10, was 9.4 percentage points in rural areas as compared to 5.9
percentage points in urban areas for SCs. For STs the percentage points decrease
during the same period in rural areas was 12.0 and 7.8 per cent in urban areas. For
all groups the percentage point decrease in LFPR between 1993-94 to 2009-10 is 8.2
per cent in rural areas and 4.5 per cent in urban areas (Planning Commission, 2011).
Thus, the decrease in labour force participation between 1993-94 to 2009-10 is
higher for SCs, STs and all groups in rural areas as compared to urban areas, but
among the group, the highest decrease is in the case of STs (Table 1).
The workforce participation rate by usual principal and subsidiary status for
SCs in 1993-94 was 71.1 per cent and for STs it was 81.4 per cent which was much
higher than the WFPR for all social groups (68.9 per cent in rural areas), similarly
they were higher in 2004-05 and 2009-10. Although urban WFPR is consistently
lower for all groups, SCs and STs have a much higher WFPR compared to all groups.
The higher WFPR for SCs and STs is the result of lower enrolment ratio of the working
age population (15 & above) in secondary schools than other social groups.
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The adolescents of SCs and STs are forced to involve themselves in any type of
employment because of poor income of the households. The WFPR in 2009-10 is 61.4
per cent SCs, 68.9 per cent for STs and 59.9 per cent for all groups in rural areas. In
urban areas these figures are 51.8, 49.2 and 47.2 per cent respectively for SCs, STs
and all groups (Table 2). Higher LFPRs and WFPRs for SCs and STs as compared to
non- SCs/STs is the outcome of engagement of people of these groups in income
generating activation at lower age, dropping out from the schools. Labour force
participation rates by usual principal and subsidiary status by religious groups have
been presented in Table 3 and 4. Table 3 shows that LFPR is lowest for Muslims both
in rural and urban areas as compared to Hindus, Christians and Sikhs. Likewise the
WFPR for Muslims has remained lower than their counterparts. Hindus, Christians
and Sikhs during all three reference periods i.e. 1993-94, 2004-05, 2009-10, both forurban and rural areas. It shows that Muslims are worse placed so far as their
employment is concerned.
The workforce participation rate for the single largest minority groups,
Muslims, happens to be much lower than for any other religious community at 55.7
per cent in rural and 49.5 per cent in urban areas. This WFPR for Muslims is much
lower than that of SCs and STs, the other two major vulnerable groups in Indian
society. This significantly lower WFPR for Muslims appears puzzling at first sight
because enrolment rates of Muslims of working age in secondary or higher secondary
education is also known to be relatively low, a situation that prevails among SCs and
STs as well. But the latter two groups have, as we noted earlier, much higher WFPR
than other social groups in the Indian labour market. The probable explanation for
the simultaneous existence of low secondary enrolment rates and low WFPR among
Muslims lies in the rather low status of Muslim women, as compared to any other
social group or religious community in Indian society (Planning Commission, 2012,
p.90).
Unemployment rate by usual principal and subsidiary status for SCs, STs and
Muslims has been presented in Table 5. Data in this table reveals that unemployment
rate is highest among Christians both in rural and urban areas, but what is
significant is that unemployment rate among Christians in urban areas came down
from 8.5 per cent in 2004-05 to 2.9 per cent in 2009-10. This decrease is highest
amongst all the social and religious groups. Among the social groups, the
unemployment rate is higher for SCs/STs in rural areas, but in urban areas STs are
the worst sufferers. For Muslims the unemployment rate was 2.1 per cent in 1993-94
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in rural areas which came down to 1.9 per cent in 2009-10. Unemployment rate of
Muslims in urban areas was 3.6 per cent in 1993-94 which came down to 3.1 per cent
in 2009-10 (Table 5).
The unemployment rate according to the current daily status is a far moresensitive indicator of unemployment situation in the country than the usual principal
status indicator. The trends in unemployment rate by current daily status have been
presented in Table 6 and 7 for various social groups and religious groups respectively.
Unemployment rate by current daily status increased for two largest religious groups-
the Hindus and the Muslims in rural areas in 2007-08 as compared to 2004-05,
before falling in 2009-10. For all other religious communities there was a continuous
decline in the unemployment between 2004-05 to 2009-10 (Table 7). In urban area,
however, the decline in unemployment rate was observed even in the case of Hindusand Muslims.
About 25 per cent of the Muslims of India live in West Bengal and Kerala, the
unemployment rate by current daily status among Muslims was as high as 18 per
cent in rural areas of Kerala and 25 per cent in urban Kerala against the all India
average of 9 per cent and 7 per cent (Planning Commission 2011, India Human
Development Report p 10.3). Similarly the unemployment rate by current daily status
was the highest for SCs in rural areas (9.4 per cent) and STs in urban areas (7 per
cent) as against this the unemployment rate for others in rural and urban areas were
5.3 per cent and 4.6 per cent respectively in 2009-10. The unemployment rate for STs
increased in both rural and urban areas between 2004-05 to 2007-08, thereafter the
unemployment rate for STs declined to 6.3 per cent in rural areas and 7.8 per cent in
urban areas in 2009-10. As far as the concentration of ST population is concerned 38
per cent of the population is residing in Andhra Pradesh, Jharkand and Madhya
Pradesh. Unfortunately the unemployment rate by current daily status among STs
was much higher than the national average in these states, in both rural and urbanareas (Planning Commission, 2011).
CAUSES OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF MARGINALIZED GROUPS
People of marginalized groups are engaged in low paid works. They are facing
the brunt of disguised and seasonal unemployment. Causes of under employment or
unemployment among marginalized groups are easy to identify. Some of the factors
have been discussed as under
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9.0 per cent and in urban Kerala (25.0 per cent) against on all India average of 7.0 per
cent (Planning Commission, 2012, p0.103). 300 districts of the country have Muslim
population in sizeable number. Traditionally Muslims are engaged in handloom, shoe
making, marble work, locks and knives, brasswares, automobile repair, carpet
weaving and other such labour industries which employ labour on contract basis.
Thus, as employees, Muslims generally work as casual labourers and they are poorly
represented in regular, salaried employment (GOI, 2012 : Report of Sub-Group P.92).
Thus, Muslims are even more disadvantaged than SCs and STs for whom, affirmative
action in the form of reservation have improved their occupation standard. Only about
27 per cent of Muslim workers in urban areas, where the concentration of Muslims is
higher, are engaged in regular work, against 40 per cent SCs, 36 per cent STs, 49 per
cent non- SCs/STs (Sachchar Committee Report : 93). In formal sector, Muslim ’ semployment is far less than the national average. Muslim men are over-represented in
street vending (their share is more than 12 per cent as opposed to the national
average of less than 8 per cent). 70 per cent Muslim women workers work in their
home as compared to 51 per cent of national average (GOI, 2012): Report of Sub-
Group P.92.
(ii) Educational level and skill: Educational level and skillness of a person not only
enhance his/her employability, but also improve his/her capability to work more
efficiently. Since the level of literacy among SCs/STs, and Muslims is far below than
their counter past non-SCs/STs and non-Muslim religious groups respectively, the
representation of these groups in regular jobs is limited. As per data of Census 2001,
nearly one third of SCs literate have not completed ‘Primary’ level of education while
over one-fourth have attai ned the ‘Primary Level’. One among ten SC literates has
completed Matriculation, only 3.1 per cent of the SCs are graduate and above. Sex
wise differentials are significant among the educational levels of Matriculation/
Secondary and Higher Secondary where percentage for males is higher than females
both in rural and urban areas (Census of India 2001; Social and Cultural Tables).
It is the STs that are most excluded, since they have lowest educational
indicators of all the three vulnerable groups. More than 40 per cent of literate STs
could not complete the ‘Primary Level’ and more than a -quarter could attain the
‘Primary Level’. But their share in higher education and technical educational is as
low as 2.4 per cent.
Literacy rate among the Muslims is the lowest among all religious groups.
Muslim women are worst sufferer on this account. Although the Muslims are not
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technically qualified or highly educated, they attain skillness through their
involvement in family occupation from tender age.
(iii) Caste based Discrimination : Although the constitutional safeguards completely
prohibit any type of discrimination based on caste, religion, class, race, region etc.SCs/STs worker are discriminated against both in the public and the private sector,
but that the discrimination effect is much smaller in the public sector because of
constitutional safeguards. In unorganized sector, certain jobs-such as scavenging,
cloth washing, shoe making.
Conclusion :
The scheduled castes, the scheduled tribes along with the Muslims are said to
be marginalized by taking into consideration any indicator of socio-economic growth
and human development. The socio-economic deprivation and poor state of health
and education of the people of these groups has resulted into high unemployment rate
by usual principal and subsidiary status as well as current daily status. The high
order of GDP growth during the last decade or so has not been inclusive in the sense
that it could not create that much number of job-opportunities which were necessary
to absorb the unemployed people of these groups. The public work programmes like
MNREGA have certainly benefitted the rural poor creating employment through
unskilled manual work during the lean season. Due to the implementation of MNREGA there has been a considerable increase in the wage rales of the rural
labourers, however, the effectiveness of the public works programme is always at
question because of their ad-hocness. The challenge to provide gainful employment on
permanent basis is as severe as it was earlier. The solution lies in the educational and
skill development of the rural masses. There is a need to heavily invest in the
formation of human capital, only then India can reap the advantages of ‘Demographic
dividend ’ .
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Table 1 : Labour force participation rate by usual principal and subsidiary statusamong various social group
(per cent)Social groups Rural Areas Urban areas
1993-94 2004-05 2009-10 1993-94 2004-05 2009-10
Scheduled castes 71.8 69.8 62.4 59.4 57.1 53.5Scheduled Tribes 81.9 79.8 69.9 59.3 56.7 51.5All groups 68.6 67.7 60.4 53.3 53.0 48.8Source : GOI (2012): Report of the sub-group on Creation of Employment opportunities in 12 th Plan, Planning Commission, New Delhi, p.89.
Table 2 : Workforce participation rates by usual principal and subsidiary statusamong various social groups
(per cent)Social groups Rural Areas Urban areas
1993-94 2004-05 2009-10 1993-94 2004-05 2009-10Scheduled castes 71.1 68.7 61.4 56.8 54.1 51.8Scheduled Tribes 81.9 79.1 68.9 57.0 54.9 49.2All groups 67.8 66.6 59.5 50.9 50.6 47.7Source : GOI (2012): Report of the sub-group on Creation of Employment opportunities in 12 th Plan, Planning Commission, New Delhi, p.89.
Table 3 : Labour force participation rates by usual principal and subsidiary statusby religious groups
(per cent)
Religious groups Rural Areas Urban areas1993-94 2004-05 2009-10 1993-94 2004-05 2009-10
Hindus 69.8 68.9 61.4 53.5 53.3 49.0Muslims 58.0 57.1 52.8 52.8 51.6 47.4Christians 67.8 67.8 62.3 55.6 54.9 51.1Sikhs 61.0 67.7 56.3 47.9 49.6 48.3Source : GOI (2012): Report of the sub-group on Creation of Employment opportunities in 12 th Plan, Planning Commission, New Delhi, p.90.
Table 4 : Work force participation rates by usual principal and subsidiary statusby religious groups
(per cent)Religious groups Rural Areas Urban areas
1993-94 2004-05 2009-10 1993-94 2004-05 2009-10Hindus 69.0 67.9 60.5 51.0 50.9 47.4Muslims 56.8 55.7 51.8 50.9 49.5 45.9Christians 65.2 64.9 59.9 50.8 50.2 49.6Sikhs 60.6 65.5 54.9 45.7 47.3 45.5Source : GOI (2012): Report of the sub-group on Creation of Employment opportunities in 12 th Plan, Planning Commission, New Delhi, p.91.
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Table 5 : Unemployment rate by usual and subsidiary status by major social/religious groups
(per cent)Social/Religiousgroups
Rural Areas Urban areas1993-94 2004-05 2009-10 1993-94 2004-05 2009-10
Scheduled castes 1.0 1.6 1.6 4.4 5.3 3.2Scheduled tribes 0.6 0.8 1.4 3.9 3.1 4.4All groups 1.2 1.7 1.6 4.5 4.4 3.4Hindus 1.1 1.5 1.5 4.7 4.4 3.4Muslims 2.1 2.3 1.9 3.6 4.0 3.1Christians 3.8 4.3 3.9 8.6 8.5 2.9Sikhs 0.7 3.3 2.4 4.6 4.5 5.9Source : GOI (2012): Report of the sub-group on Creation of Employment opportunities in 12 th Plan, Planning Commission, New Delhi, p.90-91.
Table 6 : Unemployment rate by current daily status (2004-05 to 2009-10) forvarious social groups
(per cent)Year SCs STs OBCs Others All
Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban2004-05 12 11.4 6.5 7.5 7.7 8.5 6.6 7.1 8.2 8.32007-08 12 10.1 7.5 10.0 7.9 7.7 6.4 6.0 8.4 7.42009-10 9.4 7.8 6.3 7.0 6.5 6.2 5.3 4.6 6.8 5.8Source: Planning Commission (2011): India Human Development Report 2011; Towards social
inclusion, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, p.6.
Table 7 : Unemployment rate by current daily status (2004-05 to 2009-10) forvarious religious groups
(per cent)Year Hindu Muslims Christians Sikhs
Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban
2004-05 8.0 8.1 8.4 8.1 12.0 12.6 10.3 8.72007-08 8.3 7.3 8.8 7.3 9.8 10.2 6.9 5.12009-10 6.8 7.0 6.4 7.8 9.2 6.2 5.1 4.6Source: Planning Commission (2011): India Human Development Report 2011; Towards socialinclusion, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, p.6.
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Unemployment Among Marginalised GroupsDr. Shyam Sunder Singh Chauhan
Dr. Deepa Rawat Dr. Kusum Sharma
ABSTRACT
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes among social groups and Muslims
among religious communities are the most deprived and marginalized groups in India.
Scheduled castes and Scheduled Tribes are far behind their counterpart non-
Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in almost all the socio-economic indicators. So is
the case with the Muslims who lag far behind their counterpart non-Muslims. These
marginalized groups are educationally backward, semi-skilled or unskilled and
professionally degraded so their employability in respectable professions of highincome generation is very limited. In the context of socio-economic deprivation of
marginalized groups, the present paper focuses on the nature of employment and
unemployment of these groups.
The scheduled castes, the scheduled tribes along with the Muslims are said to
be marginalized by taking into consideration any indicator of socio-economic growth
and human development. The socio-economic deprivation and poor state of health
and education of the people of these groups has resulted into high unemployment rateby usual principal and subsidiary status as well as current daily status. The high
order of GDP growth during the last decade or so has not been inclusive in the sense
that it could not create that much number of job-opportunities which were necessary
to absorb the unemployed people of these groups. The public work programmes like
MNREGA have certainly benefitted the rural poor creating employment through
unskilled manual work during the lean season. Due to the implementation of
MNREGA there has been a considerable increase in the wage rales of the rural
labourers, however, the effectiveness of the public works programme is always atquestion because of their ad-hocness. The challenge to provide gainful employment on
permanent basis is as severe as it was earlier. The solution lies in the educational and
skill development of the rural masses. There is a need to heavily invest in the
formation of human capital, only then India can reap the advantages of ‘Demographic
dividend’.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Government Girls P.G. College, Sirsaganj, Firozabad (U.P.)Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Agra College, Agra (U.P.)Associate Professor, Department of Education, Sant B.D. Jain P.G. College, Agra (U.P.)