New Delhi: We may not know how much the Indian OBC population with the idea of ​​caste census is discarded, but the composition of the elementary school students is available and rough indicators.
This shows that 45% are OBC, 19% caste scheduled (SC), 11% of the tribes scheduled (ST) and the rest – which will include caste on Hindu and most of the population of other religious groups except Buddhists – around 25% in 2019 20.
United District Information System for Plus Education (Udise +), which maintains data about schools, has collected the details of the caste of all school students for more than a decade and because registration at the primary level is 100%, the composition of the primary student caste from class I to V must widespread reflecting it in a larger population.
As far as the age structure of the more deprived section is slightly leaning towards the younger age group, it can exaggerate their shares, but not much.
Because the census calls SCS and STS, their proportions in each country are available.
Toi analyzed Udise + data and found that the proportion of SC and ST students at the primary level was quite close to their proportions in the 2011 census, variations in almost all countries were in several percentage points.
Smaller countries and UTS have been excluded from this analysis because small differences in absolute quantities can make a significant percentage change.
The Mandal Commission estimates that OBC is 52% of the population.
Although the proportion of OBC students is lower than that estimate, the quota for them is clearly not comparable to their parts in the population, unlike SCS and STS.
Southern countries have the highest proportion of OBC students with Tamil Nadu in 71% followed by Kerala with almost 69% and carnataka with 62%.
In the north, Bihar at 61% had the highest OBC proportion, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 54% and Rajasthan with 48%.
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45% of the Indian OBC population, indicating elementary school registration datwment may not know how much the proportion of the Indian OBC population with the idea of ​​the caste census was discarded, but the composition of the elementary school students showed that 45% was OBC, the scheduled caste was 19% (SC), 11% The schedule is scheduled (ST) and the rest – the top of the Hindu and most of the “if we want to overcome injustice in access to education and care about the results of various social groups, having data on caste is very important.
Without data, you cannot formulate policies To overcome this injustice.
So, it is very good that UDISE has this data and for the same reason there must be a caste census for a larger population too.
We must find a better way to eradicate caste bias in society than to avoid the census, ” said Prof.
Rohit Dhankar from the education school at the University of Azim Premi.
Until 1931, the census always had data on caste.
However, since independence, the census has collected data only on SCS and STS.
The socio-economic and caste census (SECC) collects data to be published in 2016, but the government decided to hold it on the grounds that there was a serious classification problem to resolve.
The 2021 census should include caste, but now it has been discarded.