Socio-economic Census

'Domain of governance': SC refuses to entertain plea for caste census

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre for conducting a socio-economic caste census for the welfare of backward and other marginalised sections, saying the issue falls in the domain of governance. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti allowed the petitioner P Prasad Naidu to withdraw his plea in which he had sought a direction for expediting the enumeration of data for census. "What can be done about this? The issue is in the domain of governance. It is a policy matter," the bench told senior advocate Ravishankar Jandyala and advocate Sravan Kumar Karanam, appearing for the petitioner. Jandyala submitted that several countries have done it but India is yet to do. "The Indra Sawhney judgement of 1992 (Mandal Commission verdict) has said that this census has to be done periodically," he contended. The bench told him it was dismissing the petition as the court could not interfere in the issue. Sensing the mood of the court

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Gender preference

Girl child continues to face discrimination

OBCs decoded: How backward classes in India were categorised and recognised

The Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used to classify castes which are educationally or socially backward

Chhattisgarh govt launches housing scheme for homeless families in state

The Chhattisgarh government will provide cemented houses for 47,000 poor people residing in rural areas of the state

Telangana congress leader assures caste census if voted to power at Centre

The last caste census was conducted in 1931. This data became the basis for quota caps under the Mandal formula. Caste data were collected for the 2011 census but it was never made public

RSS' annual all-India coordination meet to be held in Pune next week

The RSS is set to hold "wide-ranging discussions" on a host of topics, from national security to the prevailing socioeconomic scenario in the country, at its annual coordination meeting in Pune next week. The three-day meeting, to begin on September 14, will be attended by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, all five joint general secretaries, including Arun Kumar -- its pointsman in the BJP -- and other "prominent" functionaries, sources said. BJP chief JP Nadda and heads of other 35 RSS-inspired organisations, including the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, Vidya Bharti, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Sanskar Bharti, Seva Bharti and Sanskrit Bharti, will also attend the meeting. The meeting will conclude on September 16, they added. The Akhil Bharatiya Samanvay Baithak of the RSS was held in Chhattisgarh last year. "All the organisation

Conduct census 'immediately'; caste census 'essential': Kharge writes to PM

In the letter, Kharge said that caste census was the 'responsibility' of the government

Gadkari bats for region-based research for socio-economic change in Maha

Region-based research will bring socio-economic change in society, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday at the 25th convocation ceremony of the Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University in Nanded, some 285 kilometres from here. Stressing that being cultured was as important as getting an education, he cited the modesty of film superstar Amitabh Bachchan who took time out once during a programme to speak with two school students eager to meet him. "I was with Amitabh Bachchan at the time. The way he respected the two school students, I learned from him. Being meritorious and being a good person are equally important. Getting accepted as a good person is greater than any degree," he told the gathering. "Region-based research will bring socio-economic change in society. Socio economic development and change in the lives of the poor must be brought about by education," he asserted. He also told the collegians his plans to become an engineer collapsed after he jumped into the .

Delay could make 7th Economic Census data trivial, says House panel

The committee in its 44th report tabled in Parliament in March had recommended that MoSPI should release the Economic Census without any further delay lest the data becomes infructuous

Nitish agrees to socio-economic survey of all castes, communities in Bihar

The Bihar CM asserted that all parties unanimously supported the proposed move and replied in the negative when asked if he faced any opposition

Only way was to compare job survey with 7-year-old census: S P Mukherjee

In a Q&A, the chairman of an expert group advising the govt, says data in the enterprise-based that which showed a 22% rise in factory jobs in April-June, was misrepresented

Census operations set to resume soon, to avoid caste calculations

The states covered include large ones like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh as well as smaller states and union territories like Mizoram and Andaman & Nicobar Islands, among others

How 'kagaz nahi dikhayenge' may delay key socio-economic survey

The surveyors not just lack households' cooperation or even attacked during their work, but the NSO too has received complaints from various states

CAA protest fallout: Govt likely to defer key socio-economic survey

One major challenge faced by surveyors is the lack of cooperation by households, as they are either being shown the door or attacked during their work, putting their lives at risk

Census data confidential, guaranteed under law; violation punishable: RGI

The National Population Register (NPR) exercise will be carried out along with the house listing phase of the census

Socio-economic census to go through regular updates

Data helped weed out unworthy in Housing for All scheme