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Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has approved
the inclusion of Caste enumeration in the upcoming Census.
Census in India
Ø Census is a Union subject (entry 69 of the union list under Schedule VII) under Article 246 of the constitution.
Ø Census Act, 1948 provides a plan for conducting population census along with the duties and responsibilities of census officers.
Significance of Caste enumeration in Census
Ø Judicial requirement: States must conclude the “backwardness” of a particular class of people only after proper assessment and objective evaluation. (Indra Sawhney & Others v. UoI, 1992)
§Supreme Court also held that such a conclusion must be subject to periodic review by permanent body of experts.
Ø Social justice: Caste census along with other data might be helpful for drawing up fresh list of socially and educationally backward classes.
§Census caste data may also enable more equitable distribution of reservation benefits by making it possible to devise a ‘quota-within-quota’ (sub-categorization) system.
Ø Policy making: Caste census data will help in formulation of more informed and evidence-based policy making to cater to the needs and demands of the underprivileged and downtrodden.
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