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Telangana Caste Survey
February 7 , 2025
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- The cabinet approved the survey and placed it before the state assembly recently.
- The non-Muslim Other Backward Classes (OBCs) constitute 46.25 per cent.
- Muslim OBCs constitute 10.08 per cent of the state’s population, while Scheduled Castes constitute 17.43 per cent and Scheduled Tribes 10.45 per cent.
- Non-Muslim general castes (Other Castes) are at 13.31 per cent.
- Non-Muslim OBCs also include Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists, not just Hindus, although their numbers are small.
- Out of a total 12.56 per cent Muslims, only 2.48 per cent would not claim the OBC status.
- Bihar was the first state government to do its own caste survey.
- The survey showed that OBCs formed 63.14 per cent of the state’s population.
- Based on this data, the Bihar government tried to increase the OBC reservation of the state, but the Patna High Court struck it down as “unconstitutional”.
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