Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told a bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and C T Ravikumar that no reliance can be...

The Uddhav Thackeray government moved the SC in July seeking caste data detailed in the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) from the Ce...

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the SECC was carried out by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the then Minis...

A government official told ET that deliberations are on in the rural development ministry to rework 25 existing parameters under SECC, and ...

The move comes amid reports of names of some people, who do not fall in the specified deprivation categories of the SECC data, figuring in ...

The 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...

The govt is developing a mobile app to ensure that the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) is updated regularly, expeditiously to ensure...

The move is in line with the recommendations of a committee formed to study validity and efficiency of the SECC 2011 data in identifying th...

The 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...

The decision to use the SECC-2011 data was taken after the Sumit Bose Committee in its report favoured using the same for rural development...

Ministry of Rural Development has published data for rural areas and decided to use SECC, 2011 data for selecting beneficiaries under its p...

The 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 will adopt the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) instead of the poverty line-based method to identify recipients for its pr...

The ministry is using the SECC data in its programmes. The data is being used for selecting beneficiaries in PMAY, PMSY and others.

The government is set to roll out the rural housing programme, after drawing up a list of beneficiaries based on SECC data for a final veri...

Move will involve convergence of various government schemes, sharing of infrastructure and resources and multi-pronged strategies to addres...

Congress favoured releasing caste-based data carried in SECC but advocated caution while doing so in view of social and political sensitivi...