"caste-census"

Hyderabad: Today’s Hyderabad News includes Congress’s resolution for the caste census, Hyderabad being proposed as Andhra Pradesh’s capital, and HCA women coach getting suspended for drinking alcohol in the team bus.  

BRS MLC Kavitha also demanded that the government allocate Rs 20,000 crore for the welfare of BCs in the 2024-25 budget and give legitimacy to the BC Sub-Plan

We are going to do it under the leadership of AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge," he said.

CM Revanth Reddy made the announcement during a review meeting with BC, Minority and Tribal Welfare Departments at the Secretariat

The YSRCP government has set the caste census as a major goal and is considering that the enumeration can transform the living standards of people, according to government sources.

The government will also organise round table meetings at the district and regional levels involving the leaders of the different caste associations to take their suggestions on the caste-based census.

Andhra Pradesh Information minister Chelluboyina Venugopala Krishna said that the survey on castes was being taken up after 92 years

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday came out in support of conducting a Caster based census in the country

According to the Minister, there are about 139 BC castes in the state and the people from these communities are oblivious to their numerical strength.

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S.V.N. Bhatti dismissed the petition as withdrawn and granted liberty to the petitioners to approach the state government

Nair Service Society (NSS), an organisation of Kerala's forward Nair community, on Tuesday came out against the caste census and caste reservation.

Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the Congress Working Committee has taken a "historic decision" unanimously to support the demand for a nationwide caste census.

Pressure seems to be mounting on the Karnataka government, especially within the ruling Congress, to make the 'caste census', public.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi why is he scared of the caste census.

The special session of Parliament was called to change the name of India to Bharat, but instead the women's reservation bill was introduced, claimed Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi demanded that the women's reservation bill be implemented immediately and alleged that the government does not want to do this while distracting from the demand for caste census.

The BJP’s problem with the caste census stems from its ideological positioning, a move it feels will only benefit the opposition

The Samajwadi Party, which has been demanding a caste census in the state, had included the issue in its manifesto for the 2022 assembly polls

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will hear the plea challenging Patna High Court judgement upholding the caste survey ordered by the Bihar Government on August 14.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has been pressing for a caste-based census since long and had even passed a resolution in the State Assembly two years ago