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Manish Tewari writes: Census 2027 must count sub-caste in
October 01, 2025 7:36 am
India’s first fully digital Census offers opportunities for sophisticated metadata analysis. These technological capabilities will be wasted if data collection remains conceptually limited to expansive categories
A history of Congress and the OBCs, from first quota demands to Mandal challenge
August 04, 2025 11:42 am
Over the decades, the Congress party has missed several opportunities to reach out to OBCs in North India. It has also failed to claim credit for policy changes beneficial to OBCs that Congress governments initiated
SECC 2011 didn’t follow sound process, lakhs of groups noted, upcoming census will be streamlined: Backward classes panel chief Ahir
May 02, 2025 6:22 pm
The 2011 Census was followed by SECC 2011, under which data on individual castes and tribes was collected between 2011 and 2013.
Socio economic, caste census website out of order, Ministry cites ‘technical reasons’
March 22, 2024 8:22 pm
Although its caste-wise data was never made public, the SECC 2011 offers insights about the economic deprivation of social groups such as Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs.
Rural development: Panel to rejig way schemes reach people
January 03, 2016 3:18 am
Panel set up by the Ministry of Rural Development will look at Socio-economic Caste Census instead of poverty ratio.
Explained: In SECC urban BPL calculation, room to include more ‘poor’
July 27, 2015 2:27 am
All poor across the 1-12 spectrum add up to 28.43% of the urban population.
Lalu Yadav fasts over release of caste census data
July 27, 2015 3:24 am
PM Modi on Saturday sought to reach out to the Yadavas, Lalu's mainstay, by addressing them as 'Yadu Bhai' and introduced himself as a native of Lord Krishna's land.
How bad is the SECC data?
July 23, 2015 6:31 am
It’s very bad. It proves the adage — garbage in, garbage out.
Neither BPL nor APL
July 22, 2015 12:00 am
Socio-Economic and Caste Census can help identify welfare beneficiaries without falling into a binary trap.
The measure of poverty
July 20, 2015 5:15 am
Estimates based on SECC and NSS data have different purposes.
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