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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Wednesday said that the BJP-led union government’s announcement about conducting a caste census has vindicated the firm stand of DMK that ...

He congratulated and thanked Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, for his leadership in implementing the historic caste census in Telangana, gave him credit for the Centre’s decision to ...

Caste enumeration will be included in the upcoming national census. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced this decision in a briefing. The BJP criticised Congress for historically opposing the ...

A decade later in 1961, the central government asked states to conduct their own surveys and prepare state-specific lists of OBCs if they wished so. Over six decades later now and after demands ...

Caste Census in India: In a significant move, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Wednesday that the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has decided to include caste enumeration in the ...