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‘Per capita income of Brahmins is the lowest’

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Bangalore: Koota Samaja Organisations Federation, a conglomerate of six associations representing Brahmins hailing from Udupi district and living all over the country has come out with an agenda to help poor and meritorious Brahmin children with scholarship for pursuing their education.

Giving details of the federation, its general secretary Yajnanarayana Herleru and K.L.B. Aithal, K. Keshava Holla, K.N. Raghavendra and Ganesh Rao, executive committee members, said that a statement by the government on the floor of the Legislative Assembly prompted them to take up such philanthropic programme for Brahmins.

Mr. Herleru said the per capita income of Christians was Rs. 1,562, Vokkaligas Rs. 914, Muslims Rs. 794, Scheduled Castes Rs. 680, but that of Brahmins was the lowest with Rs. 537 in the State. He said that 50 per cent of the rickshaw pullers in Patel Nagar of Delhi were Brahmins and 44 per cent of the children from the caste were dropouts at the primary school level and 36 per cent at the high school level.

He said that while 45 per cent of the people across the country belonged to the below-the-poverty line, it was 55 among Brahmins. Mr. Herleru said that the federation had the desire to extend the scholarship to other sections, but only after meeting the needs of Brahmin children.

Brahmins, even though educated, were not getting employment and were not getting even menial jobs and were in penury. The federation would be inaugurated by the Pejawar Math’s Vishvesha Tirtha Swami on May 3.

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