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A more accurate description is that OBC is a policy and administrative category of “backward classes”, with caste and community identity historically playing an important role in identifying those cla ...

Congress also alleged that question number 10 on caste was “deliberately very poorly designed” and would render the caste census exercise meaningless.

The ongoing Census 2027 was to be an apolitical statistical exercise to collect data on population and economic indices, but it has stirred up a hornet’s nest with the introduction of an open-ended q ...

The opposition party alleged that the prime minister made a “complete U-turn” on April 30, 2025, when he announced a caste census, and accused him of now making a “U-turn on his earlier U-turn.”

Officials said the census was being conducted ahead of schedule in these high-altitude areas to ensure its completion before winter.

Enumeration will begin on August 17 in Ladakh and the snow-bound regions of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, ahead of the nationwide exercise scheduled for February 2027.