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The top court is hearing several petitions challenging the Patna High Court decision upholding the caste survey being undertaken by the Bihar government.

The now withdrawn affidavit maintained that the subject of census is covered in the Union List under Entry 69 in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution and the Census Act, 1948 "empowers only the Union Government to conduct the census.”

Chaudhary differentiated between census and caste-based survey, stating latter is distinct and not synonymous with census.

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The Centre said that the Union of India is committed to taking all affirmative actions for the uplift of SCs/STs/SEBCs and OBCs in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the applicable law

Centre submitted before the top court that no other body except the Union Government is entitled to conduct the exercise of either Census or any action akin to the census.

The Centre recently moved the top court seeking permission to intervene in the ongoing hearing in the top court. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that the issue may have a ramification and the government should be allowed to file its response

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that only it is empowered to conduct a census under the relevant law as the subject falls under the Union list of the Constitution.

The Central Government has filed a fresh affidavit in the Bihar caste survey case withdrawing the earlier affidavit which said "No other body under the Constitution or otherwise is entitled to conduct...

No other body other than the Union Government can conduct a caste census, the Supreme Court was told today. The Centre filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court and asserted that the Census Act, 1948, empowers only the Government to conduct the census.