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Akhilesh seeks quota for OBC and Muslim womenAkhilesh Yadav accused the BJP of using the Women's Reservation Act to delay the census and demanded inclusion of OBC and Muslim women in t...- Manickam Tagore questions 'sudden rush' in delimitation, targets Centre over Women's Reservation Bill timelineCongress MP Manickam Tagore criticised the Centre's plan for the Women's Reservation Bill. He said the sequence should be Census, then deli...
- Congress objects to no specific OBC mention in Census queryThe Congress party has objected to a new census question that omits explicit mention of OBC and General categories, asking only about Sched...
- For first time since 1911, denotified tribes to be enumerated in census 2027For the first time since 1911, India's upcoming 2027 Census will include denotified tribes, aiming to elevate these historically marginaliz...
- Centre issues Census notification, to be held in two phasesIndia will conduct its 16th census in 2027. The census will include caste enumeration. The focus will be on caste rather than class. The ex...
- Next Steps: Union Cabinet to decide on commission, terms for caste censusFollowing the caste census announcement, the Union Cabinet is expected to establish a commission to determine the castes and sub-castes for...
- Centre plans to conduct census next year, no decision on caste yetThe Centre plans to conduct the delayed decadal census next year and complete it by 2026, updating the National Population Register. Discus...
- No plan to collect caste data during census: Nityanand RaiPolitical parties, including BJP allies, have been demanding collection of caste data for empirical evidence on the total population of Oth...
- SECC 2011 is not OBC data, found to be flawed: Centre tells Supreme CourtSolicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told a bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and C T Ravikumar that no reliance can be...
- No enumeration of OBCs in 2021 census: MHA“Union cabinet will have to take a decision for enumeration of OBCs in the Census. There is a provision for SC/ST in Census but not OBC,” t...
- Uneven distribution of OBC benefits: Panel gets extension for six monthsOfficials had cited delay in the panel report for not including OBC enumeration in the ‘test census’ starting on August 12.
- Despite promise, no OBC category yet in census 2021Last time a caste-based census was conducted 87 years ago, in 1931, by the British.
- Cabinet nod for first caste census in 80 yearsThe contentious and often divisive debate over enumerating caste may linger, but the Union Cabinet on Thursday bit the bullet deciding to h...
- Caste census begins in DecemberThe GoM on caste census on Wednesday gave its nod for conducting enumeration on caste-lines from the biometric stage.
- Centre seeks views on caste censusUPA is asking opinion of political parties on the issue.
- Govt sends caste census to GoMThe contentious proposal to hold a caste-based census has been referred to a GoM, likely to be headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
- Recasting 2011 census: Too little, too lateWhat we lose by this careless inclusion of caste in the census of 2011 is an opportunity to debate the underlying nature of social inequali...
- Govt buckles, agrees to include caste in 2011 censusThe stage is set for the inclusion of caste in the national headcount after a gap of 79 years after high-pressure lobbying by OBC satraps a...
- Census moves Backwards to 1931Backward leaders forced govt to concede demand for caste-based census.
- Caste-based census impractical, Centre set to tell ParliamentThe issue had brought out serious differences in the Cabinet.
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