Statistics on Dalit Atrocities in India
Every 15 minutes, a crime is committed against a Dalit, 6 Dalit women are raped every day and 56,000 Dalit children living in slums die due to malnutrition every year in India.
The recent IHDS data shows that over 27% of Indians admit to practicing untouchability, despite the practice being illegal.
Dalit students at 21 IITs (19%) and 19 IIMs (16%) have reported facing caste-based discrimination, record poorer academic performances than their forward caste peers even after controlling for socio-economic backgrounds.
One in four women among the Dalits in the 15-49 age bracket are undernourished according to their Body Mass Index (BMI).
Among Dalits, 70.4 % of women reported problems with accessing healthcare when they knew they are sick. Getting permission to go to the hospital facility, or distance to the health facility, or money were stated as the reasons.
According to the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies in 2013, The average age at death for Dalit women was 39.5 years against 54.1 years for higher-caste women.
According to the recent data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), among the women in the age group 25-49 who have anaemia, 55.9 % are Dalits. The national average among Indians is 53%
The gap of unemployment was the highest between SC and UC during the pandemic; the probability of job loss for SC was 14 percentage points higher than that for UC, in other words,the rate of job loss was three times higher for the SCs.
In 25% of villages: Dalits paid lower wages than non-Dalits, work longer hours have more delayed waged and suffer more verbal and physical abuse.
In 37% of villages: Dalit workers paid wages from a distance to avoid physical contact.
70% of Dalit women are illiterate in rural India
On average 88.5% of cases under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 and 1995 remain pending trial from 2009 to 2018.
The abolition of caste system in 1950 could not take away this occupation-based discrimination. Even today, more than 90% of the employees in the sanitation and cleaning sector are Dalits.
Nine states of India accounted for 84% of all crimes against Dalits in India in 2019, according to data just released by the National Crime Records Bureau!