Visit at loast 20 households each of the following disadvantage groups and collect the information required as per the perform no 1 attached page no 22. After completing the survey what do you conclude? And what step would you like to take first for empowerment of these groups and why?
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The Minorities, who constitute 145.31 million (17.17%), as per 1991 Census, represent Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Zorastrian communities. While the Muslims are mainly concentrated in Jammu and Kashmir (J and K), Lakshadweep, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the Christians are predominantly inhabited in the north-eastern States of Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Manipur, besides Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Daman and Diu. The Sikhs are mainly found in the northern States/UTs of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Chandigarh. The Buddhist population is mainly found in Sikkim, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Although Zorastrians are numerically negligible, they are found in sizeable numbers in Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, besides Delhi and Daman and Diu.