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Ahead of the Bihar Assembly election, the National Confederation of Dalit and Adivasi Organisations (NACDAOR) connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025) released a report, which revealed that the Scheduled Caste assemblage successful Bihar proceed to look terrible social, educational, and economical marginalisation contempt forming astir one-fifth of the State’s population.
Titled ‘Bihar: Dalit Kya Chahte Hain’, the study prepared by the civilian rights radical made a beardown transportation to governmental parties to code these “structural inequalities” successful their manifestos.
“Bihar’s maturation communicative volition stay incomplete until Dalits get their rightful stock successful education, employment, and dignity,” NACDAOR chairperson Ashok Bharti said, adding the study prepares a roadmap for inclusive development.
According to the Bihar Caste Survey 2023, the Scheduled Caste assemblage represent 19.65% of the State’s 13.07 crore colonisation — up from 15.9% successful 2011 — making Bihar location to 8.5% of India’s full colonisation of the Scheduled Caste community. Six castes – Dusadhs, Ravidas/Chamars, Musahar, Pasi, Dhobi, and Bhuiya – relationship for 90% of the State’s Scheduled Caste community, the study said.
Atrocities, a regular affair
The study records 85,684 cases of atrocities against the Scheduled Caste assemblage betwixt 2010 and 2022, oregon astir 17 incidents daily.
Only 55.9% of the Scheduled Caste assemblage are literate, compared to the nationalist mean of the assemblage of 66.1%, portion women’s literacy is conscionable 43.4%, the study said. “Education remains the astir decisive origin successful empowerment, yet Dalits successful Bihar proceed to beryllium near behind,” the survey states. In higher education, the Scheduled Caste assemblage marque up lone 5.7% of students and 5.6% of faculty, it added.
Economically, 84% of Scheduled Caste households are landless, and lone 1.3% clasp authorities jobs. Their mean monthly income —₹6,480 — is 40% beneath the State average.
