Census or survey? All you’ll want to know as Bihar govt, Centre spar over caste-based scrutiny
Debate over a caste-based survey in Bihar continued this week with the BJP-led NDA taking potshots on the Nitish Kumar authorities. The Centre knowledgeable the Supreme Courtroom on Monday that it was the one entity that would conduct a census. In the meantime the Chief Minister and his deputy have continued to emphasize the distinction between a census and a survey.
“It’s the Central authorities’s responsibility to conduct a census, we solely wish to conduct a survey within the state. Census is what is completed on the Centre stage and we cant try this. We wish to collect monetary details about the totally different individuals no matter any caste, wealthy or poor, Hindu or Muslim dwelling within the state in order that, we will work for his or her welfare,” Kumar stated on Tuesday.
His remarks echo the same clarification from RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav final week.
“We do not need a caste census, it’s a caste-based survey. The caste census is the union authorities’s proper as per the structure… It will give us the numbers, and we are going to get scientific knowledge. And we may also do an financial survey. As a result of what we imagine is that persons are poor in each part. We are going to provide you with schemes after we all know the place the poverty is and profit them. How can we resolve whom to get a reservation if we do not know the financial situations…” the Bihar Deputy Chief Minister had stated.
Main Bihar politicians together with JD(U) chief Vijay Kumar Chaudhary have slammed the Central authorities for submitting an affidavit within the Supreme Courtroom towards the Bihar’s authorities resolution.
Whereas the matter had been stalled for a while following the authorized and political hurdles the Bihar goverment had acquired the inexperienced sign final month. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar stated final week on Friday that the caste-based survey had already been accomplished.
“The caste-based headcount train within the state has been accomplished. Now the info is being compiled and it’ll quickly be made public. The caste-based survey within the state is useful for all. It’s going to allow the federal government to work for the event of assorted sections of society,” he stated.
“The SC by no means gave a course to place the train on maintain. The Patna HC had dismissed a batch of PILs difficult the validity of the Bihar caste survey, terming the state authorities’s initiative completely legitimate and legally competent. The state authorities resumed the train and accomplished it,” Kumar added.
(With inputs from businesses)
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Up to date: 30 Aug 2023, 05:17 AM IST
