Caste-based census to be held in Bihar
Tags: State News
In the all-party meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on June 1, it was decided that the census would be conducted on the basis of caste in Bihar soon.
Its purpose is to take development works to the underprivileged people.
The people involved in this mega exercise will be given proper training.
It will be a time bound exercise and every detail of caste, sub-castes, community and religion will be taken care of for the development of all sections of the people.
The census report will be published so that no one is left out and the media will also be informed about it from time to time.
However, the central government had rejected the state government demand saying it would be a "divisive exercise", but also said that states can conduct caste census on their own.
What is caste based census?
In independent India, data on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has been published in every census from 1951 to 2011, but no data on other castes has been published.
Every census until 1931 contained caste figures.
Although, in 1941, caste-based data was collected but not published.
In the absence of such a census, there is no proper estimate of the population of OBC and others.
The Mandal Commission estimated the OBC population at 52%.
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