Speaking of India, people belonging to lower castes and women face the most discrimination
Discrimination. A problem faced by each one of us at some point in life. We all have encountered certain situations in life where we were either accused of discriminating or were the ones discriminated. It is something invisibly present around us.
Speaking of India, people belonging to lower castes and women face the most discrimination. According to a new report by Oxfam India, people not belonging to Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes earn Rs 5,000 per month more than those belonging to these two communities, while Non-Muslims earn 7,000 more than Muslims.
India Discrimination Report 2022 highlights bias in accessing jobs livelihoods and agricultural credits. The report also states that 15.6% of the Urban Muslim population aged 15 and above were engaged in regular salaried jobs whereas 23.3% of Non-Muslims were engaged in regular salaried jobs. These stats are of 2019-20.
“The lower employment for urban Muslims attributes 68% to discrimination. In 2019-20, 70% of the difference between Muslim and non-Muslim engaged as salaried workers was due to discrimination,” it said.
The report further states that self-employed SC/ST people earn Rs 5,000 less than non-SC/ST people. Discrimination here accounts for 41% of this gap.
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The report further states that the rural SC/ST population is facing high discrimination in employment the report states.
Data showed an unequal income among rural SC and ST casual wage workers was majorly 79% because of discrimination in 2019-20, a sharp increase of 10% from the previous year.
In rural areas, Muslims witnessed a 17% hike in unemployment in the first quarter of COVID.
For salaried workers during Covid, Muslims emerge as the most affected group for which the percentage figures went up from 11.8 to 40.9 in rural areas, the corresponding increase for SC/ST (5.6 to 28.3) and general category (5.4 to 28.1) being less than that, it said.
A maximum decline of 13% in earnings was recorded by rural Muslims while it was close to 9% for others, the report said.
Casteism is the backbone of discrimination. When this spinal cord will break, India won’t fall but rise.
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