The federal government has introduced that caste enumeration could be included within the forthcoming census train in a clear method.
Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi expressed full assist for the caste census however emphasised the necessity for a transparent timeline. He additionally supplied Congress’ assist in serving to the federal government design and implement the census.
Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi stated, “We had stated within the Parliament that we’ll make Caste Census occur. We had additionally stated that we might scrap the 50 per cent cap, the bogus wall that’s in place. Narendra Modi used to say that there are simply 4 circumstances. Do not know what occurred however out of the blue after 11 years, the Caste Census has been introduced. We utterly assist it, however we would like a timeline. We need to know by when this can occur. This is step one. Telangana has turn out to be a mannequin within the Caste Census and it might turn out to be a blueprint. We provide our assist to the Govt in designing the Caste Census…There are two examples – Bihar’s and Telangana’s and there’s a huge distinction between the 2…”
Modi govt to conduct caste census
In a serious choice, the federal government on Wednesday introduced that caste enumeration will likely be included within the subsequent census train in a “clear” method and slammed the opposition events for utilizing caste survey as a “political software”.
Asserting the selections taken by the Cupboard Committee on Political Affairs, Ashwini Vaishnaw stated the census comes underneath the purview of the Centre however some states have performed caste enumeration within the identify of surveys.
Alleging that the states dominated by opposition events have performed caste surveys for political causes, the minister stated it’s the Modi authorities’s resolve to transparently embrace caste enumeration within the forthcoming pan-India census train. The census train was to start in April 2020 however bought delayed because of the Covid pandemic.
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