What Does Lowest Growth of Chhattisgarh

Abstract: The paper examines differentials in growth of population between scheduled tribes (ST) and scheduled castes (SC) in two adjacent states, namely Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh (MP) in central India by utilizing published official information/data. Rate of growth of population has been lowest in Chhattisgarh in this entire region. This is found to be proximately due to a higher rate at which the STs of Chhattisgarh are both dying, fleeing homeland to other places for survival, and getting displaced from original homeland. Relatedly, a growing inequality in the distribution of fruits of modern economic growth and improved health-care facilities between these two historically underprivileged/backward social groups seems to be the foundational cause of such ignoble state of ST