2011 Caste Census Data News Today

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove the 50 per cent cap on reservation while also asking him to make the 2011 caste-based census data.

NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday said the ministry of social justice and empowerment has no plan to release data captured as part of the socio-economic caste census (SECC) conducted in 2011 “at this stage”. “The Union of India after independence, decided as a matter of policy not to enumerate caste-wise population other than SCs and STs,” junior home minister G Kishan Reddy said in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha. The SECC 2011 was conducted by the ministry of rural developme...

File photo of Union minister of state for home Nityanand Rai NEW DELHI: The government has no proposal at present to release the report of the caste census carried out in 2011, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC), 2011, was conducted by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the then Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) in rural and urban areas respectively. Rai said the ...