"caste-census"

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A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S.V.N. Bhatti dismissed the petition as withdrawn and granted liberty to the petitioners to approach the state government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

Telangana State Commission for Backward Classes chairman V Krishna Mohan Rao said the BJP-led government at the Centre was delaying the process of census for political reasons

Now that Bihar has launched the first phase of caste-based counting, the NDA government must shed its ambivalence on the matter

Krishna Mohan Rao came down heavily on the Centre for its unwillingness to hold the Caste Census as part of ongoing General Census- 2021.

The demand for a caste-based census to ascertain the size of the OBC population has been a long-pending and valid one

By Anil Kumar Hyderabad: The purpose of a caste census is not merely confined to the reservation issue, but it could actually bring to the fore a larger number of issues, such as information on people who are deprived or the kind of occupations they pursue, which in turn will allow policy makers to prepare […]

Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao has demanded the Centre to immediately take measures to conduct the caste census in the country. Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan here on Wednesday, Hanumantha Rao stated that the lack of data had led to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) not getting their due in reservations […]

The NDA government’s ambivalence on the caste census has been exposed by its ally Janata Dal (United) with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar deciding to go ahead with the exercise which is essential to fine-tune the reservation policy. Though the Constitution doesn’t explicitly allow the States to conduct a census, it must be pointed out […]