*Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, Centre of Excellence, Govt. Degree College Sanjauli, Shimla
**Ph. D Scholar, Department of Commerce, HP University, Summer hill, Shimla
Online published on 25 October, 2016.
Literacy is one of the qualitative aspects of human life and it mirrors the level of development of a country. The present study is an attempt to make a comparative analysis of the literacy rates and the poverty rates of the major religious groups of India in including minorities both in terms of gender and urban-rural differentials. The study is based on the Census 2001 dataset on Religion and Census 2011 dataset. The data set for poverty are based upon Tendulakar methodology(TM). As such, literacy rate itself is a good indicator of the socio-economic progress of a country as also of a religious group. From a sociological point of view, the nation of India s is large and complex enough that it might be considered a world of its own. In India there is a religious based minority's class. Various Provisions have been incorporated in the Indian Constitution for the uplifting these minorities in India. Though the benefits are not as much as are available to SCs/STs, yet they are being recognized for community development/Social development as well as economic development. An effort has been made to highlight the religious faiths along with religious population and the level of poverty among the minorities in India. Poverty and literacy and coincide of a national development. An attempt has been made to understand the relationship between povert and literacy in this paper.
HP-Himachal Pradesh, NRM-New Religious Member, BC-Before Christ, AD-After Death of Christ, BPL-Below Poverty Line, TM-Tendulakar Methodologies, NSSO-National Sample Survey Organization, NCM-National Commission for Minorities, Minorities, Minority, Religious, Religion, Poverty and Literacy etc
