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| Socio-economic census paints a grim picture of JK | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 5: The socio economic and caste census released last month has exposed the hollowness of developmental claims. The census revealed that 60% population of the rural population earned less than 5000 a month. The survey also said that a major portion of this income was earned by manual/casual labourers.
The census further reveal
With a whopping 76.47 of the households living in rural areas of the state, the provisional census data has put a question mark on various employment-generating schemes run by the government in state. Only 22.37 percent of the households in rural have salaried job in the state, as per the SEEC 2011 findings.
So how do others survive ed that around 24% households in rural areas have a salaried job in the state. It is in place to mention here that around eighty percent of the state's population lives in rural areas.
Of them 19.95 percent of the households have salaried government jobs and 0.52 %in the public sector and only 1.91 percent households with salaried job are in private sector.
In 67.45 percent rural households the highest earning member fetches less than 5000 rupees. 14.52 percent households earn between 5000 and 10000 and just 18.03 percent of the households have monthly salary above 10000 rupees.
Of the 1600842 households, 37.28 % are manual casual labourers, 30.12 percent making a living through cultivation. Similarly 4.46 percent earn by working as full time or part time domestic aides. Around 0.34 percent live on alms.
More than ten percent of landless households earn from manual casual labor. Only 4.12 percent of the rural households have non-agricultural enterprises registered with government.
Mere 8.71 percent of the rural households pay income and professional tax in the rural areas of J&K.
However, notwithstanding the grim figures cited above 72.03 percent of the households have mobile phones. 24.88 percent are without phone facility and 0.97 percent own landlines. 2.12 percent have both landlines and phone. |
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