Abstract :
Scheduled Caste (SC) population of India undergoes social and historical discrimination. After the
seven decades of independence, low literacy rates still reflect the impact of the discrimination. By the
efforts of Dr. BhimraoAmbedkar, who fought for the rights of the 'Depressed Classes', the Scheduled
Population have been benefited by the “Reservation Policy”. But throughout the state of India there is
some group of SC community who are still ahead of the rest of the community. In West Bengal Sunri,
Namasudra, Dhoba, Poundra are the top in terms of educational achievement. In spite of the higher
population share to total SCs population of the state,Bagdi, Bauri, Dom, Mal are still lagging behind. In
this paper an attempt has been made to find out the privileged community among the 60 SCs community
ofWest Bengal. The main objective of this paper is to compare the major SC community ofWest Bengal
in terms of various aspects of literacy.
Keyword :
Male-Female Literacy Disparity Index Reservation Policy Rural-Urban Literacy Disparity