In an appeal filed before the top court against the May 4 order of the high court, the Bihar government had said the stay will adversely affect the entire exercise
Enough investments have been made to use the caste census as a fulcrum of forthcoming political discourse ahead of 2024 general elections. The issue may be Bihar-centric but the answer has national implications, at least at...
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Janta Dal United (JDU)-led grand alliance government, had announced a caste census last year, which will be costing Rs 500 crore to the state exchequer.
The BJP maintains that it has never been opposed to a caste census, citing its support to resolutions passed to the effect in the state legislature and the executive order for the survey.
With Bihar already finalising its caste-based census started in January this year, the issue of 'Mandal vs Kamandal' politics has gained momentum across other states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Once a caste-based census would be conducted it would do away with the fuzziness and fluidity around the non-dominant castes within the OBCs and ultimately a substantial data reflecting the social reality of India’s lesser...
Yadav's statement comes days after several opposition parties, including the Congress and the JD(U), demanded a caste census and sought reservation according to the population of SC, ST and OBC communities.
On Friday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said with India becoming the most populous country in the world, a socio-economic caste census is very...
They also cited the country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's stand against caste census and noted that Indira Gandhi followed by Rajiv Gandhi had put...
The Congress-led-UPA regime had compiled the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in 2011. The reports from the census have been published except that of the...
In the letter, Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge also pointed out that the regular decennial census was to be carried out in 2021 but it has not yet been...
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge demanded a caste census that is up-to-date.
In the absence of an updated Caste Census, a reliable database so very essential for meaningful social justice and empowerment programs, particularly for OBCs,...
The Congress leader was speaking in Kolar district, a mining region in Karnataka where he made the "Modi surname" comment in 2019 that led to his conviction in...
"The decision on recruitment of 69,000 assistant teachers has come. It is the result of weak arguments in the case by the BJP government, which is against the...
Caste is a deeply rooted factor in Bihar politics. The data will be collected with a mobile application which will entail questions regarding the interviewee's...
The petition had contended that concrete policies cannot be formulated in the absence of concrete data.
Nitish also reiterated the need for a fresh estimate of the respective population of various social groups and recalled having taken it up with Prime Minister...
Despite electoral setbacks, Nitish Kumar is not ready to toe ally BJP’s line on all issues. His recent stand on caste census and enacting population control...
The state BJP chief, who claimed to have flagged his concerns at the meeting, said that it must be ensured that the survey "exclude foreign infiltrators like...
The meeting comes amid soaring political temperatures in the state over issues of caste census, Rajya Sabha polls and talk of political realignments.
Union minister Nityanand Rai reiterated in the Rajya Sabha session that the census schedule will not include castes other than the SCs and STs.
The aim of a caste census is not to know the numerical strength of a caste. Rather, it would reveal social inequalities for possible remedial measures.
A comprehensive count can be helpful in deciding categorical revisions and inclusion/exclusion of castes/communities in deciding reservations and...
