Until now, caste certificates were mostly required for availing reservation benefits in government jobs, scholarships, and various welfare schemes. But with the new mandate on caste census ...

A civil servant defaced his 1921 census return with an astonishingly prophetic political cartoon depicting officials in top hats “counting cannon fodder” for the “next war”. Arthur Vince ...

Caste Census: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), on 30 April approved the enumeration of castes in the upcoming Census — a surprising decision that ...

Union Minister for Coals and Mines G. Kishan Reddy said on Thursday (May 1, 2025) that the Census Act, 1948, will have be amended to enable the enumeration of caste in the next Census exercise.

The Centre announced a nationwide caste count alongside the next population census, reversing its previous stance. Opposition leaders claimed victory, asserting their persistent demands compelled ...

India is set to include caste enumeration in its upcoming census, a practice discontinued post-independence except for SCs and STs. This decision, driven by political and social demands ...

India’s next Census exercise will include a caste count, the Union Cabinet decided on Wednesday. The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister ...

Caste enumeration will be included in the upcoming national census. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced this decision in a briefing. The BJP criticised Congress for historically opposing the ...

A caste census surveys caste-wise population data, including distribution, socio-economic status, education levels, and other related demographic details. In a major decision, the Union government ...

A decade later in 1961, the central government asked states to conduct their own surveys and prepare state-specific lists of OBCs if they wished so. Over six decades later now and after demands ...

Let us tell you what will be its process. Caste Certificate Online Process: The Government of India has also announced to conduct a caste census along with the next census in the country.

Big data integration firm Fivetran Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire universal data platform company Census for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2018 as Sutro ...