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Committed to caste census in Bihar, will hold all party meeting, says CM

Highlighting the importance of the caste census, the Chief Minister said that it will enable the government to work for the development of various sections of the society

Statsguru: Six charts explain challenges for five poll-bound states

The five-year moving average growth rate is significantly lower than it was in 2009-10

Census unlikely anytime soon as fear of 3rd wave of Covid looms large

The decennial census, supposed to be held in 2020-21 but postponed due to the Covid pandemic, will not be held anytime soon. The Centre has directed the states not to alter the boundaries of the districts and other civil and police units till June 2022 -- a mandatory requirement three months prior to the country's biggest enumeration exercise. With the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic looming large, Union Home Ministry officials said so far, no decision has been taken on when to conduct the census and then update the National Population Register (NPR). The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India has conveyed to the states that the central government has put a ban on the alteration of boundaries of districts, sub-divisions, taluks, police stations, etc. till June 2022, an official from the Home Ministry said. Ban on alteration of boundaries of administrative and police units, at least three months prior, is mandatory for conducting the census operations. Since the boundar

The clock is ticking on demographic dividend

A large number of people between 15 and 60 may result in faster economic growth

World grew by 74 million over past year, says US Census Bureau

The US grew by almost 707,000 people over the past year

BS Number Wise: How many Indians? Census suspense beyond population size

Is the country getting older; how is the labour force faring: important questions about demographics await answers

Regardless of skepticism about NFHS data, male-female ratio is improving

Objecting to what the report has not counted and what it has misses the point that India's gender gap is mending.

Caste-based census legitimate demand, says NCBC chairman Sahni

Sahni said several organisations have met him with this demand

All-party meeting soon to decide on caste-based census in Bihar: Nitish

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that an all-party meeting would be convened soon to take a decision on conducting a caste-based census in the state. Talking to reporters here, Kumar said that he had clarified in the past that the option of carrying out a state-specific census exercise is open. "We (all party) will soon take up the matter. An all-party meeting will be called to arrive at a unanimous decision on the exercise. Whatever be the decision, it will have to be a unanimous one, he underlined. The Centre had in September told the Supreme Court in an affidavit that caste census of Backward Classes is administratively difficult and cumbersome and excluding such information from the purview of the exercise is a ''conscious policy decision''. Earlier, Kumar, as the leader of an all-party delegation from Bihar, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press for inclusion of OBCs in caste census. Asked about his reaction to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's latest remark that

Cabinet approval for new Census dates including NPR expected soon

The dates being considered are likely to somewhat delay the crucial population count later in calendar year 2022. The approvals for doing the exercise in 2021 have run out

Caste Census of backward classes administratively difficult: Govt to SC

Centre's stand assumes significance as recently, a 10-party delegation from Bihar, which was led by Nitish Kumar, had met PM Modi demanding caste Census

Demand for caste-based census growing, says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a votary of caste-based census, on Monday said several political parties in other states have started raising the same demand for caste enumeration

Spectre of caste census limits BJP's OBC politics

Even among OBC parties that support a caste census, this could be a miscalculation because these largely family-run 'Mom and Pop' shops are seen as representing the dominant castes among the OBC.

Caste politics

A census of this kind isn't good for the country

Will accept caste-based census if all parties agree: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she will accept a nationwide caste-based census if all political parties reach a consensus on the matter

Nitish Kumar leads all-party delegation to meet PM on caste census

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with a 10-member all-party delegation from the state on Monday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press the demand for a caste-based census.

Nitish Kumar-led delegation to meet PM Modi today over caste census

Nitish Kumar-led ten parties delegation including Janata Dal (United), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and others will meet PM today at 11 am to demand caste-based census

Bihar CM-led delegation to meet PM on Aug 23 to discuss caste-based census

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Thursday said he along with representatives of all the parties in the state will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 23 to discuss the issue of a caste-based census

Census 2021 related field activities postponed due to Covid-19: Govt

The government informed Parliament on Tuesday

Census 1921 vs 2021: Capturing pandemic data, from Spanish Flu to Covid-19

There is no clarity on when the decadal Census 2021 operation will be complete, though the development of digital applications for data collection offers hope the work may pick up pace once begun.