BC front seeks caste census

Hyderabad: The BC political front has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a caste census in the country, especially to get OBCs’ population for formulating welfare schemes and their implementation.
BCPF chairman K Murali Manohar, convenor D Sammaiah and other leaders said that the caste census is required in the ensuing enumeration of national population census 2021 for fulfilment of demands and aspiration of the majority communities in the country.They said the caste census was last done in 1931 and later caste enumeration was completely stopped.
The leaders said the UPA government had promised in 2010 that caste census would be conducted as part of 2011 census but later went back on its promise.