Mallikarjun Kharge highlighted the importance of a reliable database for social justice and empowerment programs, and emphasised that conducting a comprehensive caste census was the Union government’s responsibility.
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai. File
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Govt intention to conduct Census 2021 had been notified in Gazette of India on March 28, 2019, says Minister
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that there was “no proposal at present to release the report of the caste census” carried out in 2011.
Union 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.