Claim: Appavaram, in the 2011 Census, had a total of seven scheduled castes, sometimes referred to as Dalit, meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit, and zero scheduled tribes.
Evidence: The Scheduled Caste (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people in India. The terms are recognised in the Constitution of India and the groups are designated in one or other of the categories. Dalit (Sanskrit: दलित, romanized: dälit), meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit and Hindi, is a name for people belonging to the lowest caste in India characterized as "untouchable".