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What Census 2027 will reveal about the country we’ve becomeIndia's Census 2027, launched April 1, is a crucial exercise. It will assess the nation's socioeconomic transformation since 2011. The cens...- Survey to gather data for welfare policies: Karnataka govt in HCThe Karnataka government defended its socioeconomic survey in court, arguing data is crucial for welfare policies, countering claims of dat...
- Why affirmative action means more than just quotasAs India prepares for the 2027 caste-based census, the focus shifts to effective affirmative action beyond reservations. The Social Welfare...
- Another caste count for...?India debates the need for a new caste census. Existing data from NFHS and NSS already provide caste demographics and socioeconomic indicat...
- Quick recovery from 2024: BJP has again acquired more political space for manoeuvrability & comfortBJP is regaining political strength after election successes in Maharashtra and Haryana. These victories have bolstered the party's stance ...
- No census in 2021, at least 14 crore deprived of National Food Security Act benefits: CongressThe Congress party on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announce the timeline for the updated census, emphasizing the need ...
- Is PM Modi's promise for Madiga sub-quota in Telangana just a 'jumla'?, asks CongressCongress general secretary Jairam Ramesh questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stance on various promises made in Telangana, including ...
- Why the coming assembly polls could test the efficacy of Modi cultWhen two new and knotty issues loom as 'game-changers', it would be naive to conclude that the assembly polls next month in five states sha...
- View: The central government should bite the data and initiate a more meaningful caste-based censusSound data is the bedrock of evidence-based policymaking. Without robust data to rely on, policy moves degrade into policy conjectures. The...
- View: Returning states power to make OBC lists makes sense, but may become fodder for politicsStates have not suddenly been empowered to conduct their own caste census, as a regional party leader claimed. There is a difference betwee...
- Living standard, not income, key to fixing poverty line: Govt paperThe future definition of poverty line cannot be the subsistence level income required by an individual but will have to factor in living st...
- All eyes are on GST as government plans higher social pensionAs per the estimates, restructuring the three key social pensions will incur an additional expenditure of Rs 10,000-12,000 crore over prese...
- Yogi Adityanath's farm loan waiver for UP: SBI report sees Rs 27,420 crore hit on banksIf cleared, the loans waiver scheme will also lead to some stress on the state's fiscal arithmetic as it would cost state govt around 8% of...
- Malda villages fight drought, CPM fights for seatIn the 2014 LS polls, TMC was less than 5,000 votes short of CPM in this assembly segment of Uttar Malda seat.
- Revamped rural housing scheme gets Cabinet nodThe Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin, earlier known as the Indira Awas Yojna, will start from April 1 this year and run till March 2018-1...
- Lalu Prasad demands separate budget for backward classesLalu Prasad on Sunday demanded separate budgetary provisions for backward classes in proportion to their population in the country.
- 15 numbers that framed 2015From 1 alleged killing of a cow in Dadri to 855-point decline in Sensex on Jan 6 , here's a list of 15 numbers that framed the year 2015.
- 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 ...
- Clarify delay in identifying Right to Food Act beneficiaries: Supreme Court to CentreThe ambitious law pushed through by the previous UPA govt that aims to cover three-fourths of the country’s population is yet to be impleme...
- National Food Security Bill and risks of exclusionIn our view, the National Food Security Bill, instead of solving the problem of exclusion and inclusion error, has given ways to augment su...
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