Wide gap in literacy, employment figures for Andhra Dalit sub-groups

The most literate in the Scheduled Caste community in Andhra Pradesh has higher literacy than the state average, while less than 40 per cent in the least literate sub-group can read and write.

A similar gap exists on employment with some sub-groups having a greater proportion of people with steadier employment than others. This is based on a Business Standard analysis of the Census 2011 data, which has statistics on sub-groups at state level.
 

A Supreme Court judgment on August 1 allowed states to create sub-categories for reservations so that it could reach more segments of the