Centre’s likely stand in Supreme Court: ‘Anomalies’ in Maharashtra OBC data; Can’t shareThe Uddhav Thackeray government moved the SC in July seeking caste data detailed in the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) from the Ce...
16 Sep, 2021, 08.12 AM IST
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...
10 Mar, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
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...
10 Feb, 2021, 04.16 PM IST
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 ...
16 Sep, 2020, 12.09 PM IST
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...
27 Jan, 2020, 10.46 PM IST
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 ...
06 Oct, 2018, 11.49 AM IST
SECC data collected in 2011 still lying unusedThe rural development ministry proposes to have live data to en sure that there is a central database of who avails of the social welfare b...
02 Sep, 2017, 01.28 PM IST
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...
21 Aug, 2017, 12.39 AM IST
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...
06 Aug, 2017, 11.31 PM IST
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...
26 Jul, 2017, 08.50 PM IST
1.7 crore urban households in India don’t have a separate kitchen: ReportThis fresh data gains importance considering that different studies have shown how air pollution in kitchens has become a major health conc...
12 Apr, 2017, 08.58 AM IST
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...
04 Apr, 2017, 06.00 PM IST
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...
06 Feb, 2017, 04.46 PM IST
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...
30 Jan, 2017, 12.49 AM IST
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...
04 Jan, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
On Socio Economic and Caste Census: This is not...an entirely wasted exercise, says economist Jean DrezeThe SECC needed two personnel and one digital tablet each to enter responses that would automatically upload data every day to the central ...
21 Jul, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
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...
20 Jul, 2015, 05.33 AM IST