Hyderabad: The BC Commission led by chairman G. Niranjan, met with keep officials to firm up plans for the proposed caste survey in the state. The two-hour meeting discussed the procedures to be ...

The government may add a caste column to the upcoming census, India Today reported on Monday, September 16. The last census was conducted in 2011 and was delayed due to the outbreak of the COVID ...

The Centre is deliberating over adding a caste column to the census, but no decision has been taken yet, government sources told India Today TV. The Opposition and some parties within the NDA such ...

This is a positive for democracy A wise politician once told me politics in India works only around the Big Three factors – religion, caste, and income (rich vs poor). The rest – policymaking ...

Around 80 per cent of India’s population belongs to Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities, who were excluded and discriminated against by ...

The Union government is yet to take a call on conducting the next Census exercise but active discussion is on to expand the data collection to include caste enumeration, a top government source ...

Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday reiterated the demand for a caste census, claiming that 90 per cent of India's population is not a part of the system. Addressing the ...

Union minister Chirag Paswan, whose Lok Janshakti (Ram Vilas) Party is allied with the BJP, announced his support for a caste census in a press conference Union minister Chirag Paswan came out in ...

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (August 24, 2024) renewed his call for a nationwide caste census and pointed out the lack of representation of women from Dalit ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (August 24) reiterated his “caste census” tune to slam the BJP-led Centre stating that he checked the “list of Miss India” but there was no mention ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday reiterated his demand for a nationwide caste census by claiming 90 percent of the country's people are sitting out of the system, and the step should be ...

The Supreme Court of India declined to entertain a petition seeking to declare the country’s traditional caste system unconstitutional on Tuesday. The petition, filed under Article 32 of the ...