Centre's Caste Census Will Take Over States' Surveys: Revanth

Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday said that once the central government undertakes the caste census, along with population census, it will prevail over the caste surveys conducted by Telangana and other states.

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HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday said that once the central government undertakes the caste census, along with population census, it will prevail over the caste surveys conducted by Telangana and other states.

"Hitherto, there was no scientific data of the other backward classes in the state. So, our government undertook a massive exercise of conducting social, economic, education, employment and political caste surveys. Now that the Centre has decided to conduct the caste census along with the general census, it will become final," Revanth told reporters at a press conference.

Telangana Backward Classes Commission chairman G Niranjan said once the Centre conducts the caste census, it would make the latest survey conducted by the state government redundant and the entire exercise conducted by the state government would go waste.

"The state government has spent over ₹150 crore over the caste survey covering more than 11.21 million families and 36 million people by engaging approximately 103,889 enumerators and supervisors. They went door to door and collected information and the data was compiled and analysed in a scientific manner," he said.