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Caste Census update 2025
May 3 , 2025
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- The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), headed by the Prime Minister, has approved caste enumeration in the forthcoming population census.
- Every Census in independent India from 1951 to 2011 has published data on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, but not on other castes.
- Before that, every Census until 1931 had data on caste.
- However, in 1941, caste-based data was collected but not published.
- The Mandal Commission estimated the OBC population at 52%.
- As per Article 246 of the Constitution of India, the subject of Census is listed at number 69 in the Union List of the Seventh Schedule, making it a Union subject.
- In 2022, Bihar became the first state in the independent India to successfully enumerate all castes.
- Later, Karnataka and Telangana have also undertaken the caste census.
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