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SCs, STs notified under 1950 orders to be enumerated in Census 2021: Govt
The Census 2021 exercise, when carried out, will enumerate only those SCs and STs that were notified through the constitutional orders of 1950, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. Union minister Nityanand Rai said this in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on whether the government is planning to undertake a caste census along with the General Decennial Census 2021. "In Census, the castes and tribes which are specifically notified as Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) as per the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, as amended from time to time, are enumerated," he said. Rai said the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 was conducted by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the then Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) in rural and urban areas respectively and the SECC 2011 data, excluding the caste data, have been finalised and published by MoRD and ...
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India's disadvantaged lack nutrition, except we don't know how much
In India, caste is a dominant aspect of an individual's social identity and can similarly determine access to crucial health and nutrition services
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Breaking social barriers
Is it possible to use social media to promote trust between communities with a history of violence?
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Caste, American style
Book review of Caste: The lies that Divide Us
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Undoing of social progress: Covid-19 is intensifying fault lines in society
The pandemic is bringing back caste biases and reversing the gains in girl child education, writes Kavita Chowdhury
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Panther poetry
The internationalist outlook of the Dalit Panthers has been described as fitting 'into the global mosaic of anger, protest, demonstrations, violence, and youthful revolutionary upsurge'
Gunjan Veda's book seeks to break caste through sunlit stories from India
Author Gunjan Veda confronts her own prejudices in the hesitant but brave epilogue of her book The Museum of Broken Tea Cups: Postcards from India's Margins
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How despite migration caste discrimination follows India's disadvantaged
SCs and STs benefited less from migration as social discrimination continued to impact them in the places they migrated to, research shows
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