An amendment was made to the listing in 1975, which identified 841 Scheduled Castes and 510 Scheduled Tribes. The complete percentage of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes combined was found to be 22.5% with the Scheduled Castes accounting for 17% and the Scheduled Tribes accounting for the remaining 7.5%. Following the report many Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes more and more referred to themselves as Dalit, a Marathi language terminology used by B R Ambedkar which accurately means “oppressed”. Despite the excessive overall enrolment fee for primary education among rural kids of age 10, half could not learn at a …