The central government on Wednesday announced that caste enumeration will be a part of the National Census, an ANI report said.
According to the report, Union Minister Ashiwini Vaishnaw said, “Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has decided today that Caste enumeration should be included in the forthcoming census.” Vaishnaw did not announce a date for beginning the census.
He also said that the census comes under the purview of the Centre but some states have done caste enumeration in the name of surveys.
Alleging that the states ruled by opposition parties have done caste surveys for political reasons, the minister said it is Modi government’s resolve to transparently include caste enumeration in the forthcoming pan-India census exercise, the report added.
The population survey, which is conducted once every decade, was due in 2021, but was delayed by the pandemic and technical and logistical hurdles.
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