Published: May 25, 2010 20:29 IST | Updated: May 25, 2010 20:31 IST
New Delhi, May 25, 2010
Cabinet to discuss caste-based census
PTI
As several political parties make a pitch for conducting caste-based
census, the Union Cabinet is set to discuss the issue on Thursday.
Differing views within the government on the issue had come to the
fore at a meeting of the cabinet earlier this month when Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh had decided to continue discussion on the
matter.
Those opposing caste-based census believe that it is a throwback to
the medieval times and the census should be looking at the future and
not the past.
Political parties, including the Samajwadi Party, RJD and JD-U have
been strongly demanding inclusion of caste in the census exercise.
The issue had figured prominently in the just-concluded budget session
of Parliament when the Prime Minister had assured the members that
government would take their views into account before deciding on the
matter.
At his press conference on Monday, the Prime Minister said that he
would ask the Cabinet to consider the views expressed in Parliament.
"I made a statement in Parliament in which I said that we shall take
into account the views expressed in Parliament by various sections...
and that I will ask the Cabinet to consider them. That process is on,"
Mr. Singh had said replying to a question on the issue.
Caste-based census was last conducted in the country in the year 1931.
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