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Caste census in Bihar
December 7 , 2021
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- Bihar is planning to conduct a State-specific caste-based exercise.
The issue
- The Union government had told the Supreme Court that the caste-based data enumerated in the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 was “unusable”.
- But in 2016, the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India had informed the Standing Committee on Rural Development that 98.87% of the data on individual caste and religion was “error-free”.
Why “unusable”?
- The government had said that the total number of castes surveyed in 1931 was 4,147 while the 2011 SECC figures show that there are more than 46 lakh different castes.
- The entire exercise was corrupted because the enumerators had used different spellings for the same castes.
- In many cases, the respondents had refused to divulge their castes.
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