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om e 's Ali a - Land ss De elo en - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, India Office

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Proce<strong>ss</strong> of <strong>Land</strong> <strong>Ali</strong><strong>en</strong>ation<br />

Table 22: List of Districts, Area and Population under Scheduled Areas<br />

District No. of blocks Area<br />

(in sq. km)<br />

areas. Rajasthan, having a feudal<br />

past, the target groups, the dalit<br />

m<strong>en</strong> and w<strong>om</strong><strong>en</strong> are the worst<br />

sufferers of the <strong>India</strong>n caste system<br />

which not only perpetuates social<br />

hierarchy but also institutionalises<br />

discrimination and social exclusion.<br />

The key i<strong>ss</strong>ues are untouchability,<br />

susceptibility to physical viol<strong>en</strong>ce,<br />

barriers to participate in decisionmaking<br />

proce<strong>ss</strong>es and acce<strong>ss</strong> to<br />

basic services. All these lead to<br />

extreme levels of marginalisation<br />

and dehumanisation of dalits<br />

and w<strong>om</strong><strong>en</strong>. Increasing land<br />

ali<strong>en</strong>ation has further forced<br />

them into p<strong>en</strong>ury.<br />

There is also a sizeable tribal<br />

population living in differ<strong>en</strong>t parts<br />

in the state but not included in the<br />

ST<br />

Population<br />

ST % Villages<br />

Udaipur 6 fully, 1 partly 7853.13 777030 68.85 1511<br />

Banswara 8 fully 5076.95 849050 73.47 1435<br />

Dungarpur 5 fully 3565.34 575805 65.84 847<br />

Chittorgarh 2 fully 2153.9 145092 51.81 493<br />

Sirohi 1 fully 859.11 54734 67.90 81<br />

Total 22 fully, 1 partly 19508.43 2401711 327.87 4367<br />

Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) Area. In fact,<br />

the scattered tribal population lives<br />

in 30 districts of the state. Total<br />

population of the scattered tribal<br />

was 17.31 lakhs in the 1991 c<strong>en</strong>sus.<br />

The agriculture: man ratio in tribal<br />

areas is low and farmland holding<br />

sizes have be<strong>en</strong> getting increasingly<br />

smaller over a period of time in the<br />

tribal sub-plan area. Total utilisation<br />

of agricultural land is about 26 per<br />

c<strong>en</strong>t of the total geographical area<br />

in TSP against state perc<strong>en</strong>tage of<br />

47. Tribal farmers cultivate on hill<br />

slopes where irrigation is difficult.<br />

As such only 33 per c<strong>en</strong>t land is<br />

irrigated. This has forced tribals to<br />

adopt low farm technologies. The<br />

ma<strong>ss</strong>ive deforestation tak<strong>en</strong> place<br />

in tribal areas has already led to soil<br />

erosion, lowering of the water level<br />

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