“Bihar, Karnataka, Telangana: What three big experiments on Caste Survey tell us”, Swarajyamag, May 2, 2025:
“On 30 April, 2025, the Narendra Modi-led Union government announced that it would include a caste column in the upcoming census.
“Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has decided to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census exercise,” said Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
“It is well understood that Congress and its INDI alliance partners have used the caste census only as a political tool. Some states have conducted surveys to enumerate castes. While some states have done this well, others have conducted such surveys only from a political angle, in a non-transparent way,” he added……”
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