According to the 2011 Census, people belonging to the Scheduled Castes category constituted how much of the country’s total population?

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19.6%

25.4%

16.6%

18.6%

answer is C.

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According to the 2011 Census, people belonging to the Scheduled Castes category constituted 16.6% of the country's total population.
The Census of India records information related to the caste and religion of every Indian every ten years. This gives us reliable information about the proportion of different communities and the changes that have taken place within each of them in the given span. According to the 2011 Census, people in the Scheduled Castes category constituted 16.6 per cent of the country's total population. The Scheduled Castes include those who were previously considered "outcasts" in the caste hierarchy of the Hindu social arrangement, also called 'Dalits.'

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