Section 3: Rural families included in "Weaker section"

The following classes of persons having total income not exceeding rupees eleven thousand per annum, shall be categorized as economically and socially backward or neglected sections of the village community:-

(i) Agriculturists owning or cultivating not more than one standard acre of land;

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(ii) Persons belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, other backward classes and nomadic tribes;

(iii) Landless agricultural labour;

(iv) Village artisans and workers engaged in small crafts; and

(v) Persons, other than agriculturists, engaged in productive vocations subsidiary to agriculture e.g. milk production, poultry farming etc.