No proposal at present to release 2011 caste census data: GovernmentRai said the SECC 2011 data, excluding the caste data, had been finalised and published by the MoRD and the HUPA. The Office of the Registr...
Raw caste census data given to Social Justice Ministry for classification: Nityanand RaiUnion Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the SECC was carried out by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the then Minis...
Raw caste data given to Social Justice ministry for classification, categorisation: MHA to Rajya SabhaThe Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 was conducted by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the then Ministry of Housing ...
View: Political critique of NPR misses its importance in social benefit deliveryThe National Population Register (NPR), which is under the political spotlight now, is a crucial link in this chain that has changed the wa...
NHA issues circular advising states to identify eligible PMJAY beneficiariesThe move comes amid reports of names of some people, who do not fall in the specified deprivation categories of the SECC data, figuring in ...
Coming up: An app to help update Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 dataThe govt is developing a mobile app to ensure that the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) is updated regularly, expeditiously to ensure...
Socio Economic and Caste Census data may be used for finding right beneficiariesThe move is in line with the recommendations of a committee formed to study validity and efficiency of the SECC 2011 data in identifying th...
Cabinet approves revision of cost of SECC 2011The proposal provides for revising the cost of SECC 2011 to Rs 4,893.60 cr, from the approved estimated expenditure of Rs 3,543.29 cr withi...
Government to use SECC-2011 census data to identify beneficiariesThe decision to use the SECC-2011 data was taken after the Sumit Bose Committee in its report favoured using the same for rural development...
Government to use SECC data for effectiveness of welfare schemesMinistry of Rural Development has published data for rural areas and decided to use SECC, 2011 data for selecting beneficiaries under its p...
Government working on social registry to better track welfare schemesThe idea is to expand the scope of the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 by regularly updating the data for each household cov...
Government finds scientific way to implement social welfare programmes, combat povertyGovernment will adopt the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) instead of the poverty line-based method to identify recipients for its pr...
13.39 crore rural households' monthly income is less than Rs 5,000The ministry is using the SECC data in its programmes. The data is being used for selecting beneficiaries in PMAY, PMSY and others.
Socio Economic and Caste Census data unreliable or incomplete: ExpertsCommissioned by the UPA in 2011, the SECC was meant to record caste, urban poverty and rural poverty, only the last of which has been relea...
Government sets up expert group headed by Arvind Panagariya to collate caste countThe cabinet on Thursday approved the formation of an expert group headed by Arvind Panagariya for classifying the caste and tribe data in t...
States asked to expedite remaining work on Socio Economic Caste CensusThe Rural Development Ministry has asked the states to issue instructions to the officials concerned to speed up the process.
- Caste census could be ready only by July-end: Jairam
The SECC, which was initiated in June last year, has not made big progress in many states. The process has not even started in some states.