Sunday, 16 January, 2022
TopicCaste census

Topic: Caste census

Congress says it ‘fully’ backs Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on caste census

PTI -
Kumar had earlier tried to engage with the Centre on the issue of a caste census. Upon receiving a lukewarm response, has decided to undertake a state-specific survey.

BJP has a challenger in UP 2022. Akhilesh Yadav’s campaign a shift away from Mulayam’s

Devi Prasad -
Akhilesh Yadav is promising to hold a caste census in UP. It’s an issue that BJP and Congress have remained silent on out of fear they will lose dominant caste votes.

You are an OBC if you score 11/22 — We traced nearly 100 years of caste in Indian census

Vandana Menon -
Rajiv Gandhi called Mandal report a ‘can of worms’. India has tried to open it five times and shut it as quickly.

Brahmins at the top on all indicators in states with schemes that benefit only them, study says

Ashwini Deshpande -
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana have adopted a set of measures that provide preferential schemes for Brahmins, which only serves to invert caste inequality upside down.

The 2nd Mandal plus Market ‘revolution’ is coming. And centre-Left has an edge over Hindu Right

Srikant Jena -
BJP's ambivalence on caste census outlines the fact that Mandal, or social justice, is re-emerging as the pre-eminent ideological fault line that will determine the future of India’s polity.

A state survey is no solution to lack of political will for national caste census

Dilip Mandal -
Although a state-level survey might sound like a feasible idea to end the logjam on caste census, it’s not as simple as it sounds.

BJP OBC Morcha chief shifts caste census onus on states, says Modi govt can take it from there

Neelam Pandey -
BJP OBC unit chief K. Laxman says no one stopped states from conducting own caste-based survey. Last week, Modi govt told SC, population census not ideal instrument for collection of caste details. 

Modi govt’s reluctance shows caste census is politically inflammable. But it’s also a necessary evil

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Centre rules out caste-based census in 2021, faults 2011 Socio-Economic & Caste Census survey

Bhadra Sinha -
Centre's response came in an affidavit filed in Supreme Court in response to petition filed by Maharashtra seeking declaration of SECC-2011 raw caste data of OBCs.

EWS quota is a bad law, it needs to go

Dilip Mandal -
The Madras High Court nixed EWS quota in NEET. Not only the Supreme Court, our Parliament too must revisit the EWS law.
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