The document provides statistics on living conditions for Muslims, Hindus, and other religious groups in India. It shows that higher percentages of Muslims live in kutcha (temporary) houses and have less access to electricity and piped water compared to Hindus. For example, 63.6% of Muslims live in kutcha houses compared to 55.2% of Hindus. Only 30% of Muslims have access to electricity versus 43.2% of Hindus, and 19.4% of Muslims have access to piped water versus 25.3% of Hindus. The document suggests that Muslims face greater marginalization in terms of housing quality and access to basic amenities.

20. Kutcha
houses
63.6% of Muslims live in Kutcha house
55.2% of Hindus live in kutcha houses
Electricity 30%of Muslims have access to electricity
43.2%of Hindus have access to electricity
Piped
water
19.4% of Muslims have access to piped water
25.3%of Hindus have access to piped water

21. All Hindus Muslim
s
Christia
ns
Sikhs Buddhi
sts
Jains
65% 65% 59% 80% 70% 73% 94%

22. Popula
tion
IAS IPS IFS PSU STATE
PSU
Banks
and RBI
13.5 3 4 1.8 3.3 10.8 2.2

25. exercise

26. OUESTION1
What do you understand by the word ‘marginalisation’?
OUESTION2
List two reasons reasons why Adivasis are becoming increasingly
marginalised?
OUESTION3
What do you understand by the term minorities?
OUESTION4
Who are adivasis?

27. ANSWER 1
Marginalised is to be forced to occupy the sides or fringes and thus not to be
at the centre of things.
ANSWER 2
The two reasons adivasis are becoming increasingly marginalised are:-
a. As many development are taken place in that area where adivasis live due
to this many adivasis live is becoming marginalised.
b. Often adivasis are blamed for their lack of advancement as they are
believed to be resistant to change or new ideas.
ANSWER 3
The term minority is most commonly used to refer to communities that are
numerically small in relation to the rest of the population.It encompasses issues
of power ,access to resources and has social and cultural dimestions. Some
minorities groups are adivasis ,dalits,christians etc.
ANSWER 4
The majorities are there in a large scale in our country. The safeguards are
needed to protect minority communities against the possibility of being
culturally dominated by the majority. Some majorities groups are hindus .