New Delhi Government today released the findings of the long awaited Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 that projects a very grim picture of the rural India and would be used as basis to improve various social welfare schemes for the benefits of poor. The Census, which was unveiled jointly by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birendra Singh, revealed that one out of three families living in villages is landless and depends on manual labour for ...Read More

By Japan K Pathak Ahmedabad Union Ministers today announced Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 rural ata in a press conference in Delhi. Here are the Gujarat part of details of the census report announced today: Gujarat Data summary 11631116 total rural household 26 number of districts 225 number of talukas 18646 number of gram panchayat/police station 18403 number of villager rural 195 number of towns Urban 6922567 total number of rural household 47...Read More

Ahmedabad According to Socio Economic and Caste Census - 2011 declared today by the central government 10.71% households in rural Gujarat are headed by women. Following are the figures on general profile of rural Gujarat. Total households 6922567 Total population 34546108 Male 17890404 Female 16650718 Transgender 4386 Never married 14158422 Never married% 40.98 Currently married 14979740 Currently married% 43.36 Widowed 1290781 Widowed% 3.74 Separated 9...Read More

New Delhi Just 4.6 per cent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 per cent, India's first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said on Friday. The percentage of Scheduled Caste (SC) households paying income tax was 3.49 per cent while Scheduled Tribe (ST) tax-paying rural households were mere 3.34 per cent, the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 said. Releasing the Census, Finance Minister Arun J...Read More