Answer:
(i)
50 per cent of casual workers in urban areas are below poverty line.
About 50 per cent of landless agricultural workers and 43 per cent of scheduled
caste are also poor.
(ii) The double disadvantage of being a landless casual
wage labour household in the socially disadvantaged social groups of the
scheduled caste or the scheduled tribe population highlights the seriousness of
the problem.
(iii) Some recent studies have shown that except for scheduled tribe
households all the other three groups that is, scheduled caste, rural
agricultural labour and the urban casual labour have seen a decline in poverty.
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