K. Narayanan Unni, a former census official, says several new census questions like questions on names, parents, addresses have little value for population tabulation and may instead serve the NPR.
The Socio-Economic and Caste Census conducted during the Manmohan Singh government had also kept the caste question open-ended, instead of giving a drop-down menu. The exercise threw up 46.7 lakh caste, sub-caste and clan names, making their classification practically impossible.
The exercise, scheduled to start next month in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, will be the first exercise recording the caste of the population since 1931.
Notice was sent to Punjab Director of Census Operations and Principal Secretary of Social Justice and Empowerment following complaint by National Commission for Safai Karamcharis.
Appearing for petitioner, Senior Advocate Mukta Gupta clarified her client was not opposed to caste census. Union govt has announced caste enumeration will be part of next census.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has also questioned the government’s commitment, raising a similar concern & calling the exercise 'just another BJP gimmick'.
Under internal reservation matrix, of 17% reservation for SCs, groups such as SC-Right & SC-Left given increased allocation of 6% each, and Category C, or ‘touchables’, given 5%.
After Jaya Mruthyunjaya Swami urged Lingayats to identify as 'Hindu' in caste census, Akhila Bharata Lingayat Panchamasali Samaj Trust said RSS & Hindutva groups 'controlling' the seer.
Tuesday’s Constitution Club election is not the finale of the ‘Thakur-versus-the rest’ battle in the BJP. Wait for the caste census result to come ahead of the next Lok Sabha election.
Tarique Rahman wants India to hand over Sheikh Hasina so that his radical non-state actors can carry out their unfinished job from 2004 — eliminating the opposition.
Federal think tank in its latest report maps India’s workforce and learners across five segments, reveals that fewer than one in 12 secondary schools currently offer vocational subjects.
Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.
Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman
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