Abstract
Poverty is a complex phenomenon and a multidimensional concept. Poverty measurement has been usually carried out taking into consideration a uni-dimensional perspective, in which income is used as an approximation of population’s economic well being. The poor suffer deprivations in multiple ways: low levels of income, illiteracy, relatively high levels of mortality, poor infrastructure, lack of voice and poor access to resources such as credit, land, water, and forests. Dalits or Scheduled Casts in India deprived of the basic amenities like drinking water, employment, education, temple entry – rituals, good quality life etc. According to census 2011, Dalits contributes17 percent to the total population of India is and their decadal population growth had remained stagnant from last half century. The Dalit population of India has been deprived in all most all socio-economic indicators as compared to the general population of India. Even though literacyratio of dalits is encouraging one, but other than literacy, all other indicators are very negligible. Near about 40 percent of dalits population is deprived in basic education and only 14 percent of the dalit population has flush toilets, remaining 86 percent of population deprived in sanitation and Flush toilets.
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