9th Progress Report (Mar 2000)
- There are 14,729 active Member Coolie families in 581 functioning CSUs
in the 4 Extension taluks.
- This means a rise of 85 villages and 998 families during the last 6
months.
- Population coverage has dropped to 26% (down from 35% on 30 September
1999) due to the addition of relatively large villages where less percentage
of the population are from the Coolie caste-class.
- Compared to the 2 year old 2nd Consortium Application, the present
membership figures represent a substantial rise of 74 villages (507 to 581)
and 139 Member Coolie families (14,590 to 14,729).
- Though the ethnic composition of the membership has changed only slightly,
it is still worrisome that strength of SC/ST families within the CSUs has
dropped by a further 2% - they now comprise only 58% of the membership.
- There is a huge change in the ethnic coverage figures because of the drop
in overall coverage — i.e. the taking on of more (and larger) villages has
resulted in only 33% of the SC/ST population being in the CSUs (down from 43%
in September 1999), 28% of middle castes (down from 37% in September 1999),
and 15% of upper castes (down from 21% in September 1999).