The last time all castes in the country were enumerated was in 1931.
New Delhi:
The matter of making Bihar caste census data public has reached the Supreme Court. The petitioner has expressed objection to making the data public. It has been said in the complaint that how can the data be released while the hearing in this case is pending in the Supreme Court? A demand has been made for an early hearing in this matter in the Supreme Court. The court has decided that this case will be heard on October 6.
The Supreme Court says that we cannot say anything on this matter right now. Actually, the Supreme Court is hearing petitions against caste enumeration. Justice Sanjeev Khanna’s bench is hearing this case. However, the bench had already refused to stay the calculation. Also, there was no restriction on making the data public. However, before this the Patna High Court had allowed caste enumeration, against which petitions were filed in the Supreme Court.
Let us tell you that the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Monday released the much-awaited caste-based census figures, according to which the share of Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) in the total population of the state is 63 percent. According to data released by Bihar Development Commissioner Vivek Singh, the total population of the state is a little over 13.07 crore, in which EBC (36 per cent) has emerged as the largest social class, followed by OBC (27.13 per cent).
Bihar’s Nitish Kumar government had ordered caste-based enumeration in the state last year after the Narendra Modi government at the Center made it clear that it would not count castes other than SCs and STs as part of the general census. Will be able to do it. The last census of all castes in the country was done in 1931. Along with giving approval to conduct caste based census on June 2 last year, the Bihar Cabinet had also allocated an amount of Rs 500 crore for it.
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