NDA-IV Modi Govt deciding to include caste enumeration in Census raises hopes for real good to many SC/ST/OBC

Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs of Government of India chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modiji has decided on 30-04-2025 to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census that is going to be conducted after 2011 census.

- DAYA SAGAR

The government expresses in the decision something like commitment to holistic interests and values of the Indian nation society. The issue for including the element of Caste in the Population census, (as is mandated for to be done in terms of Art-246 of the Constitution of India after 10 years ) which is a union subject listed at item 69 in the Union List in the Seventh Schedule, has been nominally live for more than nearly three decades but it had become a subject of more of active discussions/demands after the Bihar government projected some data about caste census got conducted by Nitish government (Bihar Caste Census Report 2023) and it was more taken as a regular issue in public domain by Rahul Gandhi. Some other Indian states are also said to have conducted such surveys to enumerate castes but the surveysdid not have that effective transparency and communication about the purpose/intent. Rahul Gandhi has been more vociferously raising the demand for such enumeration (both inside and outside Parliament too) census at all India level.