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ST Households in Rural Northeast : Of the total 23.17 lakh households, 4.08 lakh are landless, monthly income of highest earning member in 17.42 lakh households is less than 5000
Altogether 4,08,324 households of the total 23,16,676 rural households beloning to ethnic families enlisted as "Scheduled Tribe" in eight Northeastern states are landless and they derive major part of their income from manual casual labour. Socio Economoic Caste Census, 2011 data also show Meghalaya tops the list with total 147983 households out of total 439077 rural households in the state falling in this category, percentage being 33.70.
Table- ST Households ( Rural)
| States | Total Households | Landless households deriving major part of their income from manual casual labour | % | Households with Non -agricultural enterprises registered with government | % |
| SIKKIM | 33968 | 3350 | 9.86% | 1574 | 4.63% |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 156213 | 5982 | 3.83% | 4439 | 2.84% |
| NAGALAND | 267000 | 11236 | 4.21% | 5452 | 2.04% |
| MANIPUR | 232023 | 17492 | 7.54% | 2910 | 1.25% |
| MIZORAM | 110270 | 8117 | 7.36% | 3722 | 3.38% |
| TRIPURA | 257966 | 81071 | 31.43% | 17935 | 6.95% |
| MEGHALAYA | 439077 | 147983 | 33.70% | 8968 | 2.04% |
| ASSAM | 820159 | 133093 | 16.23% | 27445 | 3.35% |
Percentagewise, Tripura follows Meghalaya with 31.43 per cent of total 257966 ST Households ( Rural) included in this category in the state. In Assam, 1,33,093 households out of total 820159 ST households ( Rural) are landless.
| States | Households with salaried job | % | Households with salaried job in Public | % | Households with salaried job in private | % |
| SIKKIM | 7010 | 20.64% | 174 | 0.51% | 1274 | 3.75% |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 24043 | 15.39% | 1091 | 0.70% | 1036 | 0.66% |
| NAGALAND | 50654 | 18.97% | 2108 | 0.79% | 6709 | 2.51% |
| MANIPUR | 30563 | 13.17% | 1593 | 0.69% | 6819 | 2.94% |
| MIZORAM | 10769 | 9.77% | 1081 | 0.98% | 5556 | 5.04% |
| TRIPURA | 30758 | 11.92% | 1397 | 0.54% | 871 | 0.34% |
| MEGHALAYA | 37034 | 8.43% | 3934 | 0.90% | 11225 | 2.56% |
| ASSAM | 71468 | 8.71% | 4790 | 0.58% | 13348 | 1.63% |
Of the total 23,16,676 ST Households ( Rural) in the region, only 2,62,299 households have salaried job and the highest earning family member of as many as 17,42,585 housholds earns less than Rs. 5000 in a month. While the highest earning family member of 3,36,951 households has monthly income between Rs. 5000 and Rs. 10000 and there are 2,36,979 households with highest earning member with monthly income more than Rs. 10000.
| States | Monthly Income of highest earning household number is <5000 | % | Monthly income of highest earning household number is 5000-10,000 | % | Monthly Income of highest earning household number is >10,000 | % |
| SIKKIM | 25233 | 74.28% | 4139 | 12.18% | 4541 | 13.37% |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 113597 | 72.72% | 21424 | 13.71% | 21189 | 13.56% |
| NAGALAND | 186686 | 69.92% | 38743 | 14.51% | 41566 | 15.57% |
| MANIPUR | 149638 | 64.49% | 51682 | 22.27% | 30701 | 13.23% |
| MIZORAM | 84847 | 76.94% | 14667 | 13.30% | 10756 | 9.75% |
| TRIPURA | 215179 | 83.41% | 22093 | 8.56% | 20608 | 7.99% |
| MEGHALAYA | 333865 | 76.04% | 68252 | 15.54% | 36955 | 8.42% |
| ASSAM | 633540 | 77.25% | 115951 | 14.14% | 70663 | 8.62% |
Source : Socio-Economic Caste Census- 2011
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