• Bikash Hazarika
• Dr. Kandarpa Kumar Barman

Food is the basic necessity of life. Food self-sufficiency and nutrition security are the essential components of food security. Therefore, food security should ensure both adequate food availability and desired nutrition. It is a major problem of the state like Assam, because of shortage of food grain production, poverty and lack of nutritional knowledge. In this study, an attempt has been made to assess the status of food security among the SC community of Lakhimpur district of Assam. For finding out the level of food security Per Capita per day Calorie Intake (PCCI) and Food Insecurity Gap (FIG) has been employed. For final assessment of the level of household food security, calculated calorie intake of sample households have been compared with the calorie requirements for household members on the basis of their age and sex as recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR, 2010). For obtaining final sample, multistage mix-sampling technique has been used. It has been found that out of 62 sample households only 45.16 percent household has been found as food secure and another 54.84 percent is found as food insecure.

Food Security, SC Community, Per Capita per day Calorie Intake, Lakhimpur.

"Food Security of the Schedule Caste (SC) Households: A Case Study of Lakhimpur District of Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.g103-g110, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106842.pdf

"Food Security of the Schedule Caste (SC) Households: A Case Study of Lakhimpur District of Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppg103-g110, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106842.pdf