The BJP-led Union government on Wednesday decided to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census exercise.

Prasad said the absence of reliable caste data for decades has hindered the effective formulation and implementation of ...

Congress ignored caste census for decades, buried SECC data, and played vote-bank politics. BJP calls for transparency and ...

Opposition parties, including Congress, on their part claimed victory for their long-standing demand and said that the BJP ...

National Commission for Backward Classes Chairperson discusses errors in 2011 caste census and upcoming caste enumeration in ...

This move has swiftly turned into a political contest over who deserves credit for it — an expected reaction in a democracy ...

Telangana Backward Classes Commission chairman G Niranjan said once the Centre conducts the caste census, it would make the ...

As the name suggests, caste census is a caste-based survey of the country's population aimed to determine the exact number of ...

The Hindutva party claimed that the Opposition’s demand for caste to be counted was aimed at ‘dividing Hindus’.

The last caste census was done in 1931 by the British administration. It found 4,147 castes in India. Around 52% of the total 271 million population at that time were OBCs ...

After resisting for over a decade, the Modi government agrees to include caste in the upcoming Census. Opposition leaders say ...