Lucknow: In the latest of several successive attacks on the opposition over caste politics, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on ...

He highlighted that in 2016, a trader was murdered in Lucknow and a jeweller was shot in Sultanpur — incidents that occurred ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a scathing attack on caste-based politics at a grand event held here on the eve of Bhamashah Jayanti and Vyapari Kalyan Diwas, on Saturday.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) have opposed any move by the BJP to amend the Constitution to remove the ...

Lucknow, In a veiled attack on the Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that those who divide the society in the name of caste are the same people, who bowed ...

Caste enumeration is a necessary exercise that will inevitably change the composition and politics of this social identity marker. Such a headcount wouldn’t just record reality, but may actually ...

A caste-based census has been one of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's major demands for quite some time. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which was against such an exercise, suddenly changed its mind and ...

The central government’s Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in 2011 did collect detailed caste-related data, but the findings were never made public, fueling speculation and controversy.

Caste enumeration isn’t just an academic exercise. We need to track and tackle deprivations. So the country’s caste census must be designed in a way that yields useful data for policy responses.

The story so far: The Union Cabinet has decided that the next Census will include questions on caste to its enumeration of India’s population, for the first time in almost a century. The ...

As the name suggests, caste census is a caste-based survey of the country's population aimed to determine the exact number of people of each caste living in India as accurately as humanly possible.

Bihar's Caste Survey The starting point we take, however, is 2022, when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar - who has consistently championed a caste census - ordered a state-wide enumeration.