Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday urged the center to reconsider his decision not to mention the castel population that will come in the ten-year census.
Repeating his request for caste-based census in the country, Nitish said the Bihar Assembly unanimously passed the resolution on February 18, 2019 and again on February 27, 2020; demand a wise population calculation.
He said the two resolutions were sent to the center and the United Government was asked to hold a wise enumeration.
“I will once again ask the center to hold a caste census.
Caste-wise census must be done at least once.
If we know the exact number of different casts, we can work towards their improvement,” Nitish said while reacting to the decision of Ndadra Modi-LED Nda Recently not to mention the caste population.
CM talks with media people on the sidelines of the transportation department event in the state capital here.
Replying to a written request at Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the State Union Minister for Nityanan and Rai houses said that the Indian government has decided as a policy problem not to mention the caste and STS population in SCS and STS in the census.
The state government of Maharashtra and Odisha has asked to collect detailed caste in the coming census.
The Indian government has decided as a matter of policy not to mention the caste-wise population other than SCS and STS in the census, “said Rai at Lok Sabha.
Cm further said,” Now, it has been informed in parliament that a wise population calculation will not be done.
I will once again ask the union government to hold a caste census.
“” We have not only sent two resolutions to the center through the Council of Bihar but I personally talked to people in the union government to hold a caste census.
This is our request and I asked the center to reconsider his decision not to mention the caste population, “said Nitish.” You all know we have demanded a caste-based census since 1990.
I have time and once again express my view of this problem.
I also put my views in assembly and demanding the caste-based census, “he said.
Nitish also showed that the SMA-Economic Caste Census (SECC) was carried out in the country after 2010.” When SCC was not done correctly, there were no significant results coming out from him.
The SCC report was prepared in 2013, but was never published or entered into the public domain.
Therefore, people cannot know what the caste population is where the region / region.
The caste-based census must be done once so that people can know the poor family population (except those from SC / ST).
After the caste-based census is done, people and planners will know the number of accurate caste, “CM argues.