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Impact of Welfare Schemes on Socio-Economic Status of Scheduled Caste Rural Families

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Title Impact of Welfare Schemes on Socio-Economic Status of Scheduled Caste Rural Families
 
Creator Shalini
 
Contributor Kaushik, Sushma
 
Subject Socio economic status, Scheduled Caste, perceived impact, awareness and utilization
 
Description Present study was conducted in Hisar District of Haryana state, purposively. Five villages
having predominately large number of Scheduled Caste population were selected. Forty women from
each village (total 200) were selected randomly for phase-I and 10 interested village representatives
from each selected village (total 50) were selected for phase II. Two separate well structured pre-tested
interview schedules were developed for each category of respondents. A set of 21 independent
variables and 3 dependent variables were used in study. The collected data was quantified and
interpreted by using suitable statistical tools. Socio personal profile of respondents revealed that
majority of respondents were illiterate, agricultural labourers with medium family education and
majority of them had green ration card. They had poor economic, communication profile and had low
material possession. Majority of respondents had poor self perception of themselves, although they had
high aspirations for their children. They were moving forward in terms of educational and occupational
mobility. The findings also revealed that awareness of various welfare programmes was high among
majority of respondents, but utilization of schemes was low. Social status on various parameters was
perceived as improved and slightly improvement by most of respondents. Maximum impact was seen
in terms of education (2.58) followed by health and sanitation (2.48), community action (2.45) and
miscellaneous (2.35). Regarding economic impact maximum impact was observed in terms of ‘assets’
(2.71) followed by ‘income’ (2.43), ‘information search’ (2.19) and ‘employment’ (2.13). Majority of
respondents were satisfied with the schemes, yet some were dissatisfied as they did not get full benefit
of the schemes. Village representatives had both positive and negative opinion regarding the welfare
schemes. Majority of them perceived moderate level of positive changes in condition of SC families.
The major constraints faced by village representatives were village disputes and delay in release of
funds. All the independent variables were found associated with awareness and utilization of welfare
schemes
 
Date 2016-09-10T11:26:40Z
2016-09-10T11:26:40Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/76352
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU