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Why caste based census is important in India?
  Date : 29-03-2024

Md Jubair: The last caste census was done in 1931 when India was under British rule. A similar exercise was carried out in 2011, but it never saw the light of the day because of inaccuracies and inconsistencies.

Only 7 percent Brahmans are ruling the country. Hence there is a demand for caste based census by the 70% population of India.

Political parties including JDU, RJD, SP, BSP, RJD and DMK are demanding caste census and claiming that so-called upper castes have occupied disproportionate share in jobs and access to higher education.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, a strong advocate of caste census, said enumeration of population of each caste group would help the government to formulate more accurate welfare programmes.

Quotas for Scheduled Castes (SCs), also called Dalits 15 percent and the Scheduled Tribes (STs) 7.5 percent are based on caste and tribal identities. The highest reservation mandate for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) at 27% is caste based as BP Mandal Commission ascertained the backwardness of the class on the basis of caste.

While in the case of the Dalits and STs, reservation for OBCs is not based on their share as per their population. OBC quota was fixed at 27 per cent as per the available space to keep the reservation cap at 50 per cent. The Mandal Commission had estimated OBC population at 52 per cent.

This is why leaders like SP President Akhilesh Yadav demanded that “jiski jitni sankhya bhari, uski utni hissedari” (every caste group should get representation proportionate to their share in population).

BJP has categorically stated in Parliament that it won’t undertake a caste-based survey as a policy matter, whereas, RSS does not believe in the caste system and discrimination. Despite the fact, caste-based census is the need of India, as Supreme Court has dismissed the case on the request of BJP government that it is not possible to carry out caste-based census.

The absence of fresh caste census data means that the caste estimates of 1931 are being projected for formulating welfare policies in 2021. A caste census is likely to table a fresh and updated data set for policy making.



  
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