Impact Assessment of the District Poverty Initiative Project Rajasthan

Data shows that among APL households scheduled tribe representation is low with the
exception of Dausa and Baran districts and scheduled tribe representation is highest in Churu
at 21.5 percent (table 3.1). OBC representation is above 31 percent in all the districts. In case
of BPL households, scheduled caste households as expected has higher representation; the
highest being 52.6 percent in Churu.
Table 3.1: Households by CASTE
District General OBC SC ST General OBC SC ST
APL
BPL
Baran 5.0 54.0 9.3 31.7 4.8 29.3 27.5 38.5
Churu 18.8 59.7 21.5 15.3 31.7 52.6 0.4
Dausa 13.3 30.6 17.8 38.3 12.7 23.0 38.7 25.7
Dholpur 25.9 36.8 18.7 18.7 10.8 42.9 32.1 14.2
Jhalawar 37.9 39.4 15.2 7.6 21.4 36.7 31.0 11.0
Rajsamand 46.1 36.4 6.1 11.5 19.6 18.9 22.2 39.3
Tonk 15.0 60.0 13.3 11.7 12.1 45.7 29.1 13.1
Total 23.1 44.2 14.6 18.1 13.5 32.1 33.3 21.1
Type of Family
Baseline village households have largely nuclear families across districts, though APL
proportions are lower than BPL proportions. The districts of Jhalawar and Tonk though have
one-quarter of APL families that are joint, while Dausa and Tonk have respectively 13 and 18
percent households that have joint families (table 3.2).
Table 3.2: Type of Family
District Nuclear Joint Nuclear Joint
APL
BPL
Baran 87.0 13.0 90.1 9.9
Churu 79.9 20.1 95.2 4.8
Dausa 77.8 22.2 87.3 12.7
Dholpur 84.5 15.5 92.9 7.1
Jhalawar 73.5 26.5 97.1 2.9
Rajsamand 88.5 11.5 95.6 4.4
Tonk 74.2 25.8 82.4 17.6
Total 81.3 18.7 91.6 8.4
Type of Household
Majority of APL and BPL households are male headed households, though Churu has 13
percent women headed households (APL category) and in case of BPL households excepting
Baran other districts have 10 percent or more households that women headed; highest
proportion coming from Tonk (17.6%)(table 3.3).
Table 3.3: Type of Household (headed)
District Male Female Differently Male Female Differently
APL
BPL
Baran 92.5 6.2 1.2 92.7 5.1 2.2
Churu 87.9 12.1 83.1 16.1 0.8
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