Responding to Yadav's recent remarks during a press conference, during which he reiterated his party's commitment to conducting a caste census if voted to power, Rajbhar expressed surprise at what ...

So India will resume doing what it should never have stopped doing, namely, finding out how many people there are in each caste. Not that it had stopped entirely, of course. It had kept counting ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the Congress of deceiving the public about caste enumeration. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra stated that the Modi government is the first to initiate a ...

While it will provide a lot of information which was not available earlier, the broad contours of India’s caste composition are not exactly unknown The next census will also enumerate caste data ...

The Union Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs on Wednesday decided to include caste enumeration in the next census. This will be for the first time since Independence that caste data will be ...

The last time the census in India included questions on caste was in 1931, when the British ruled the country. In fact, the British - for obvious reasons - did so in every census. Census ...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge welcomed the Centre’s decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census, urging timely execution with adequate funding. He emphasized Congress's ...

“(The caste census) will strengthen the social and economic structure of our society while the nation continues to progress,” Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said while announcing the decision on Wednesday ...

The Union Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) on Wednesday decided that the forthcoming population Census will include caste enumeration, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. The Opposition ...

The BJP and NDA allies celebrated the Modi government's decision to conduct a caste enumeration in the upcoming census, framing it as a historic move towards social equality. Leaders like Amit ...

Caste Census: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), on 30 April approved the enumeration of castes in the upcoming Census — a surprising decision that ...

While announcing that the Union Cabinet has decided to enumerate caste in the next Census, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw made it a point to argue that the 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census ...