The government on Friday took the historic decision to include caste in the ongoing census. “Caste will be included in the present census,” finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters on Friday.
A caste-based census was last carried out in 1931. Independent India had shunned counting the numbers of people belonging to each caste — barring an omnibus figure for the scheduled caste — with the objective of moving towards a casteless society.
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