Express Dialogues | Caste a reality in India, surveys needed till we attain equality: Former KSCBC chairman Kantharaj
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Express Dialogues | Caste a reality in India, surveys needed till we attain equality: Former KSCBC chairman Kantharaj

New Indian Express  

The report has become a subject of political debate. Social backwardness automatically tells that one is economically backward. Even in the Constitution, the words are clearly used “who are socially and educationally backward”, not economically backward. The report details how many people have bank accounts and ration cards. A person who is from a backward class, but has a good foreign education, runs educational institutions and has good income, will still be included in backward class?

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House debates whether to conduct caste census or caste survey
14 hours, 11 minutes ago

House debates whether to conduct caste census or caste survey

The Hindu  

The demand for conducting the caste census came to the fore yet again in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Thursday. Responding to G K Mani’s demand to conduct caste census, Minister for Backward Classes Welfare Siva V. Meyyanathan reiterated it was the job of the Union government. Stalin had in October 2023 written to the Prime Minister calling for caste …

Telangana Caste Survey 2025: Data Transparency, Political Clashes, and the Future of BC Reservations
1 week, 2 days ago

Telangana Caste Survey 2025: Data Transparency, Political Clashes, and the Future of BC Reservations

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 11, 2025 12:52 IST - 13 MINS READ The Telangana government’s landmark caste survey has rekindled a discourse on social justice measures and reservation while simultaneously triggering intense political fights over who truly represents the interests of the backward classes in the State. “The BJP is fundamentally opposed to a caste census, and BRS leaders, including K. …

PMK to stage protest on February 20 demanding caste census in T.N.
1 month ago

PMK to stage protest on February 20 demanding caste census in T.N.

The Hindu  

Pattali Makkal Katchi president Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday announced that the party would organise a protest on February 20 demanding that the State government conduct a caste-wise census in Tamil Nadu. In a statement, Dr. Anbumani said the support for a caste-wise census was growing and that the State government was behaving as though it did not care about …

Manda Krishna wants government to rectify deficiencies in SC categorisation report before enacting legislation
1 month, 1 week ago

Manda Krishna wants government to rectify deficiencies in SC categorisation report before enacting legislation

The Hindu  

Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi founder president Manda Krishna has urged the State government to rectify the lapses in the report accepted for categorisation of Scheduled Castes to ensure equitable justice to all sub-castes within the SCs. Welcoming the government’s initiative to categorise Scheduled Castes in line with the verdict of the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court, he requested the …

Telangana CM Revanth faces challenges on caste survey implementation
1 month, 1 week ago

Telangana CM Revanth faces challenges on caste survey implementation

Hindustan Times  

The Telangana government, headed by chief minister A Revanth Reddy, and which has just completed the comprehensive socio-economic, educational, employment, political, and caste survey in the state assembly on February 4, is now facing the biggest challenge of implementing the same. But prominent OBC leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP and national OBC welfare association president R Krishnaiah and former Telangana …

Telangana must act on caste survey finds
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Telangana must act on caste survey finds

New Indian Express  

Telangana’s caste survey has the potential to stir a hornet’s nest. Though the Congress government neither tabled the survey in the assembly nor made its contents public, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy gave a snapshot of the findings. The survey says the backward classes constitute 46.25 percent of the state’s population, scheduled castes 17.43 percent, scheduled tribes 10.45 percent, and other …

Telangana Assembly passes resolution asking Centre to conduct nationwide caste survey
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Telangana Assembly passes resolution asking Centre to conduct nationwide caste survey

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad, Feb. 4: The Telangana Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday, urging the Centre to emulate the household caste and socioeconomic survey conducted by the state government. Observing that a constitutional amendment is required to provide 42 per cent reservations to Backward Classes as per law, Reddy said the Congress would provide a 42 per cent quota for Backward …

Telangana assembly passes resolution urging centre to conduct nationwide caste survey
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Telangana assembly passes resolution urging centre to conduct nationwide caste survey

India TV News  

In a significant move, the Telangana Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Central government to conduct a nationwide socio-economic, employment, political, and caste survey, following the model set by the state. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, who introduced the resolution, emphasized the state government’s commitment to the welfare of backward classes, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other …

Telangana govt to debate caste survey report in House today
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Telangana govt to debate caste survey report in House today

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: All eyes are on the Legislature special session on Tuesday, where the government will table, debate, and approve the reports of the caste census, the dedicated commission on Backward Classes quota in local polls, and the one on sub-categorisation of Scheduled Caste community groups. The state government first wants to use dedicated commission data to enhance reservations for BCs …

Special session of Legislature to discuss caste survey, SC categorisation reports
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Special session of Legislature to discuss caste survey, SC categorisation reports

The Hindu  

Stage is set for the special session of the State Legislature on Tuesday to discuss the report of the comprehensive Social, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste survey. The special session of the Legislature has been convened to adopt a resolution urging the Central government to enhance the reservation for the backward classes in line with their population which, after …

Odisha forum urges Parliamentary Committee on OBC welfare to bat for national caste Census
2 months ago

Odisha forum urges Parliamentary Committee on OBC welfare to bat for national caste Census

The Hindu  

The Samajika Nyaya Abhijan, an Odisha-based forum comprising of different political parties and social organisations, urged the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes, to put his weight behind the inclusion of a caste-based census in the forthcoming national Census. “Accurate socio-economic data gathered through such an initiative will enable better-informed policymaking, equitable resource distribution, and …

Karnataka cabinet may discuss 'caste census' in next meeting, says Minister
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Karnataka cabinet may discuss 'caste census' in next meeting, says Minister

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil on Thursday indicated the possibility of the Socio-Economic and Education Survey report, popularly known as the "caste census," being placed before the cabinet at its next meeting. The Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, under its then Chairman K Jayaprakash Hegde, submitted the report to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on February 29 …

Need caste survey to ensure proportionate reservation: JKPCC chief Karra
3 months, 1 week ago

Need caste survey to ensure proportionate reservation: JKPCC chief Karra

Hindustan Times  

The Congress’ Jammu and Kashmir unit president Tariq Hameed Karra on Tuesday said a caste survey is needed to give proportionate reservation to various underprivileged sections of the society. JKPCC chief Tariq Hameed Karra “We believe that reservation distribution should be on the basis of justice but for that it is necessary to have a caste census,” Karra told reporters …

Karnataka Internal Reservation Policy for Scheduled Castes: Implementation Challenges and Political Impact
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka Internal Reservation Policy for Scheduled Castes: Implementation Challenges and Political Impact

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 25, 2024 19:35 IST - 8 MINS READ In a decision that is bound to have far-reaching social implications in Karnataka, the State Cabinet, in late October, approved implementation of internal reservation within the Scheduled Caste quota in the State, which currently stands at 17 per cent. Any decision to implement internal reservation in Karnataka, especially in …

K Kavitha urges more backward reservations in caste survey in report to BC panel
3 months, 3 weeks ago

K Kavitha urges more backward reservations in caste survey in report to BC panel

India Today  

Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC K Kavitha, on Monday, submitted a detailed report highlighting key issues impacting backward classes, to the BC Dedicated Commission Chairman Busani Venkateswara Rao. The report, prepared after extensive consultations across Telangana on the findings of the state’s caste survey, listed the need for enhanced reservations for BCs in local body elections. Telangana Jagruthi, under Kavitha's leadership, …

Caste, BC groups demand quotas in local body polls
4 months ago

Caste, BC groups demand quotas in local body polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Nalgonda: Leaders representing various backward classes and caste groups submitted a representation to Telangana State BC Dedicated Commission chairman Busani Venkateshwara Rao on Saturday, seeking quotas in local elections based on their population. Telangana State Besta Seva Sangam president G. Venkateshwarlu urged the commission to consider sub-castes like Bestha and Mudiraja as part of the fishermen community and allocate quotas …

‘Socioeconomic equality is the key, not caste divisions, says Nitin Gadkari
4 months ago

‘Socioeconomic equality is the key, not caste divisions, says Nitin Gadkari

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has expressed concerns about the opposition’s demand for a caste census, pointing out that backwardness has become an issue for political exploitation. Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari in conversation with Sunetra Choudhury, national political editor, during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2024 The Bharatiya Janata Party …

Counting right: The Hindu Editorial on caste surveys
4 months, 1 week ago

Counting right: The Hindu Editorial on caste surveys

The Hindu  

Last week’s launch of a caste survey in Telangana by the Congress government is a step towards fulfilling its 2023 Assembly poll promise. The Union government had also said that it had no proposal to make caste data of the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 public. In June, the Patna High Court struck down two Acts in Bihar, envisaging …

Caste census, removing 50% cap on reservations central to vision for country: Congress
4 months, 1 week ago

Caste census, removing 50% cap on reservations central to vision for country: Congress

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday asserted that a nationwide caste survey and the lifting of the Supreme Court's “arbitrary ceiling” of 50 per cent on reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes are central to its vision for the country. Congress general secretary in-charge, communications, Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X that the party's …

Caste census, removing 50% cap on reservations central to vision for country: Congress
4 months, 1 week ago

Caste census, removing 50% cap on reservations central to vision for country: Congress

The Hindu  

The Congress on Saturday asserted that a nationwide caste survey and the lifting of the Supreme Court’s “arbitrary ceiling” of 50% on reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes are central to its vision for the country. Congress general secretary in-charge, communications, Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X that the party's government in Telangana will …

YS Sharmila wants caste survey in Andhra Pradesh, says BJP promised so in 2017
4 months, 1 week ago

YS Sharmila wants caste survey in Andhra Pradesh, says BJP promised so in 2017

India Today  

Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president YS Sharmila emphasised her party’s commitment toward “development of backward classes” and called for a caste census in the state. Sharmila, addressing the issue of caste representation in Andhra Pradesh, urged Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to carry out a caste-based survey in the state. She also referred to a 2017 promise made by senior …

Government should take up caste census immediately, says BSP State coordinator
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Government should take up caste census immediately, says BSP State coordinator

The Hindu  

Bahujan Samaj Party State coordinator and former DGP of Andhra Pradesh J. Purnachandra Rao on Saturday asked the State government to take up caste census immediately as around 200 castes of backward classes and Scheduled Castes could not get representation in legislature in the seven decades. Along with BSP State president B. Paramjyothy, he released a book ‘Kula Andhra Pradesh’, …

DC Edit | RSS backing caste census spells a problem for BJP
6 months, 2 weeks ago

DC Edit | RSS backing caste census spells a problem for BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

The cautious clearance that the BJP’s ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has given to the idea of conducting a caste-based census nevertheless puts it in a serious dilemma. Despite consistent opposition to the idea by the BJP, voiced by its senior leaders including Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the RSS, after a just-concluded brainstorming session in Kerala, greenlighted …

Lalu Yadav on caste census: ‘Will hold RSS, BJP by ear, make them do sit-ups’
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Lalu Yadav on caste census: ‘Will hold RSS, BJP by ear, make them do sit-ups’

Hindustan Times  

Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday declared that the opposition would compel the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological fountainhead, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, to conduct a caste census. Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav holds a mic while RJD Chief Lalu Prasad addresses party workers during 28th foundation of Rashtriya Janata Dal, at the party office …

OPINION | Caste Census: Why did RSS propose?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

OPINION | Caste Census: Why did RSS propose?

India TV News  

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, the ideological mentor of Bharatiya Janata Party, on Monday clearly indicated its support to the caste census, but added a rider saying that the census should not be used as ‘a political tool.’ At the end of the three-day Samanwaya Baithak between RSS and its frontline outfits, Sunil Ambekar, prachar pramukh of RSS told a press conference: …

RSS Backs Caste Census, But With Conditions As Congress Accuses It Of Opposing Move
6 months, 2 weeks ago

RSS Backs Caste Census, But With Conditions As Congress Accuses It Of Opposing Move

ABP News  

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh expressed its support on Monday for collecting data on specific communities or castes, provided that the information is utilised solely for their welfare and not manipulated for political purposes. Ambekar's remarks come in the wake of opposition parties, including the Congress, Samajwadi Party, and other INDIA bloc allies, campaigning for a caste census to inform effective …

Congress frames social justice as an essential step of a policy framework to ensure justice
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Congress frames social justice as an essential step of a policy framework to ensure justice

The Hindu  

The Narendra Modi government quickly scrapped a proposal to induct mid-level officials into the bureaucracy through lateral entry to counter the Opposition’s allegations of “ending reservations.” However, it is clear that Congress would continue to place social justice as the centrepiece of its politics. On Saturday, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, positioned caste census as an …

Emerging dimensions of caste politics in India
7 months ago

Emerging dimensions of caste politics in India

Hindustan Times  

The discourse on the politics of caste in India seems stuck in the binary of supporting or opposing caste-based reservations. The third phase of reservation politics has already begun with quota benefits to economically weaker sections and political mobilisation around conducting a caste census. In some ways, the mobilisation around social groups in India is a result of political competition …

Caste reservation fabric needs new pattern
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Caste reservation fabric needs new pattern

New Indian Express  

“Begin at the beginning, the king said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland For millenniums, caste has been cast in stone in the Indian psyche. Gavai, who could be the chief justice next year, wrote: “The State must evolve a policy for identifying the creamy layer even …

Reservation redistribution
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Reservation redistribution

Hindustan Times  

The gains of reservation — despite its goal of driving equity — have flowed unequally. Relative social privilege and political clout have led to a few groups enjoying almost all the benefits of reservations while others languish in backwardness that is largely unchanged since Independence. To illustrate, the Jatavs in Uttar Pradesh and the Mahars in Maharashtra have long been …

INTERVIEW | ‘BJP doesn’t care about Hindus, uses them for votes’: Sasikanth Senthil
8 months, 2 weeks ago

INTERVIEW | ‘BJP doesn’t care about Hindus, uses them for votes’: Sasikanth Senthil

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 02, 2024 18:18 IST - 20 MINS READ Sasikanth Senthil has been a key figure in the Congress’ resurgent performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Senthil has also been actively involved with the Congress “war room” for the general election, which he also helped set up in Karnataka ahead of the 2023 Assembly election. I believe …

Confronting caste in educational institutions
9 months ago

Confronting caste in educational institutions

Hindustan Times  

In August last year, two Dalit children in Nanguneri, a town in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, were brutally assaulted by their schoolmates, prompting the state government to appoint a retired judge of the Madras high court to study caste atrocities in schools and colleges. The report, submitted by justice K Chandru, offers suggestions that need a close discussion, not just …

We back reservations: RSS head Mohan Bhagwat amid quota row
10 months, 2 weeks ago

We back reservations: RSS head Mohan Bhagwat amid quota row

Op India  

Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha election, Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has made a significant announcement regarding reservations. The Sangh has been supporting all reservations as per the Constitution since the… https://t.co/lGju5pukHj pic.twitter.com/crS5FORdv1 — ANI April 28, 2024 Notably, last year Mohan Bhagwat remarked in Nagpur that reservations should be granted as long as there is …

Panel slams Karnataka OBC quota for Muslims: 'Against social justice principle'
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Panel slams Karnataka OBC quota for Muslims: 'Against social justice principle'

India Today  

The National Commission for Backward Classes has criticised the decision of the Congress-led government in Karnataka to categorise the Muslim community as a backward caste for reservation purposes, saying it undermined the "principle of social justice". The commission said socially and educationally backward castes or communities cannot be treated at par with an entire religion. In Karnataka, all castes and …

The fine print of Karnataka caste census
1 year ago

The fine print of Karnataka caste census

Hindustan Times  

The submission of what is popularly called the caste census in Karnataka just before the parliamentary elections has brought to the fore the two very different poll strategies of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The submission of the caste census provided the BJP with a significant issue to demonstrate its support for the two dominant castes. Voters who …

The fine print of Karnataka caste census
1 year ago

The fine print of Karnataka caste census

Hindustan Times  

The battle between a cohesive BJP and a more dissonant Congress would tell us a great deal about the mind of the voter in Karnataka. Voters who are concerned primarily with national and international issues would seek cohesiveness, while others with more local preoccupations may take a closer look at the caste alliances the Congress finally manages to generate. The …

Karnataka: Hegde commission submits caste survey report to CM
1 year ago

Karnataka: Hegde commission submits caste survey report to CM

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka’s much awaited socio-economic and education survey report, popularly known as the caste survey report, was submitted to chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday by the chairman of state’s backward classes commission, K Jayaprakash Hegde, setting the state’s political pot boiling ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah receives the 'Caste Census' report submitted by K Jayaprakash Hegde, chairman …

Karnataka: Panel all set to submit caste survey report
1 year ago

Karnataka: Panel all set to submit caste survey report

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes is all set to submit the much-awaited report on the socio-economic education survey, also known as caste survey, to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday. Successive governments, including Siddaramaiah’s, had dragged their feet on accepting the report that had been mired in controversies. The report is coming at a time when the Congress …

Caste survey in Telangana soon, govt moves resolution in Assembly
1 year, 1 month ago

Caste survey in Telangana soon, govt moves resolution in Assembly

Live Mint  

The Congress government in Telangana on Friday moved a resolution in the state assembly to conduct a caste survey in the state. ".To implement various Socio, Economic, Educational, Employment and Political opportunities for the amelioration of Backward Classes, SC and ST citizens of the state and other weaker sections of the state," reads the resolution. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy …

Cannot treat Scheduled Castes as a homogenous group: Supreme Court
1 year, 1 month ago

Cannot treat Scheduled Castes as a homogenous group: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

A seven-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Tuesday observed that Scheduled Castes cannot be treated as a “homogenous group” for granting reservation as some may have advanced in society while other continue to remain “particularly underprivileged”. The court said the diverse groups, clubbed together in the Presidential list under Article 341 of the Constitution …

2024 Interim Budget | After PM Modi’s call, Centre’s measure for social justice progress focuses on poor, women, youth, and farmers
1 year, 1 month ago

2024 Interim Budget | After PM Modi’s call, Centre’s measure for social justice progress focuses on poor, women, youth, and farmers

The Hindu  

In Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Interim Budget speech months before the country goes to the Lok Sabha election, the Narendra Modi-led government’s social justice plank is clearly spelt out with the government looking to cover the development of all castes and their administrative focus on ensuring “resources are distributed fairly regardless of social standing”. This is manifested in the way …

The tricky business of playing the castes card: Looking ahead into 2024
1 year, 2 months ago

The tricky business of playing the castes card: Looking ahead into 2024

Hindustan Times  

It is among the oldest fault lines cleaving Indian society, yet the impact of caste on the world’s largest democratic exercise is insufficiently understood. As a key determinant of social patterns and personal behaviour, caste norms routinely seep into electoral preferences, and remain among the most potent forms of mass mobilisation, even as regional, gender and class variations increasingly add …

Caught in a row, RSS says it is not against a caste census
1 year, 2 months ago

Caught in a row, RSS says it is not against a caste census

The Hindu  

Days after one of its senior functionaries opposed a caste census, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Thursday said that any such census should be used for the upliftment of society, emphasising that political parties must ensure that social harmony is not disrupted due to any reason. ‘Need Hindu society sans inequality’ Clarifying the Sangh’s official stand through social media, the …

Caste survey will do no good, will aggravate inequality: RSS
1 year, 3 months ago

Caste survey will do no good, will aggravate inequality: RSS

Hindustan Times  

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh does not support the demand of a nationwide caste census, its functionary Shridhar Ghadge said on Tuesday, adding that caste-based enumeration would exacerbate societal inequalities in the country. Union home minister Amit Shah had last month said that the BJP has never opposed the idea of caste census, but a decision in this regard would be …

Have not opposed caste census, says Shivakumar after Kharge’s charge
1 year, 3 months ago

Have not opposed caste census, says Shivakumar after Kharge’s charge

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said he is not opposed to the state’s caste survey but wants it to be done in a scientific and systematic manner, in a clarification that came amid deep divisions within the ruling Congress on the subject and a day after party president Mallikarjun Kharge criticised the former’s stand on the caste …

Caste census necessary to eradicate untouchability and caste discrimination: K. Raju
1 year, 3 months ago

Caste census necessary to eradicate untouchability and caste discrimination: K. Raju

The Hindu  

Congress Working Committee member K. Raju has called for a caste census in India to eradicate social evils like untouchability. Mr. Raju, who is also the national coordinator of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and minorities department of the All India Congress Committee, said the party viewed the census as an “X-ray” for understanding the socio-economic conditions …

Bihar caste survey results challenge BJP’s Hindutva unity narrative
1 year, 5 months ago

Bihar caste survey results challenge BJP’s Hindutva unity narrative

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 19, 2023 11:00 IST - 17 MINS READ In the 1960s, Ram Manohar Lohia of the Samyukta Socialist Party coined the slogan: Sansopa ne baandhi gaanth, Pichchde paaven sau me saat, Raj paat hai kiske haath, Angrezi aur unchi jaath With the Bihar government, led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a Lohiaite, releasing its caste survey data …

INTERVIEW | Akhilesh Yadav: ‘Reservation has to be on the basis of caste, not poverty’
1 year, 5 months ago

INTERVIEW | Akhilesh Yadav: ‘Reservation has to be on the basis of caste, not poverty’

The Hindu  

The president of the Samajwadi Party believes a caste census would lead to equal opportunity and representation in politics and policymaking. As INDIA alliance parties raise the pitch for OBC politics, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav is confident that a social coalition of the backward classes, Dalits, and the minorities will turn the tide against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, …

The case for caste census in India | Explained
1 year, 5 months ago

The case for caste census in India | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: After the publication of a caste survey in Bihar, which found that 63% of Bihar’s 13 crore population belong to castes listed under the Extremely Backward Classes and Other Backward Classes categories, Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised and rejected the demand for a nationwide caste census made by Congress and several other Opposition parties. The commission …

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