HYDERABAD: The Telangana legislative council and assembly on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the central government to take up caste-wise census of Backward Classes in the general Census for 2021.
Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao moved the resolution in the assembly stating that it was necessary to maintain accurate statistics to take up welfare measures for the poorest of poor. The CM also mentioned how several state assemblies and political parties across the country have started requesting the central government to take up the BC caste census and urged the Centre to take it up along with the 2021 Census.
The CM said that BCs comprised 50% of total population in Telangana and that there was a general opinion to ensure that justice was delivered to them. Subsequently, speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy announced that the resolution was adopted unanimously.
KCR had supported the demand for a caste census of Backward Classes on October 5 in the assembly and also favoured passing of a resolution. The central government has, however, informed the Supreme Court that conducting caste census of Backward Classes along with 2021 Census was ‘administratively difficult and cumbersome’ and called for exclusion of such information from the purview of the Census as a policy decision.
