Urges DMK govt for a caste survey

The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K Selvaperunthagai on Friday urged the state government to conduct a caste survey in the state to ensure that welfare schemes and other benefits reach the right people in correct proportion.

- Press Trust of India

CHENNAI:

When asked on the Congress party rooting for caste count in states ruled by it, Selvaperunthagai in an interview to PTI said that though the Centre should conduct the caste census, it is his party's stand that the state governments may go ahead with a caste survey. Congress is part of the DMK-led bloc in Tamil Nadu.

Census is a subject under the union list of the Constitution. "We are urging that this should be done, we are requesting the Tamil Nadu government to do it so that the welfare schemes and benefits reach the right people in right proportion," he said.