Incidence of poverty among social groups in india: why do the scs and sts remaining chronically poor?

Poverty is one of the cores and prior challenge in the development process of the nation. High poverty levels reflect poor quality of life, deprivation, malnutrition, illiteracy and low human development. This paper examines incidence of poverty among social groups in India. The analysis is based on the Tendulkar Poverty line during 1993-94 to 2011-12. The poverty have been identified to be the scheduled caste, the scheduled tribe, Other backward Caste, and Forward caste having poverty indicators in the rural and the urban. The poverty measures the proportion of the population living below poverty line among social groups. The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) having highest poverty ration in India as well as rural and urban area. Other Backward Castes (OBC) and Forward Castes (FC) additionally measured the incidence of poverty in 1993-94 in India and after 2004-05 OBC and FC having separately measured the poverty. The highest poverty states are Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharastra in India as well as rural and urban area among social groups.