Summary:
Hyderabad, Oct 5 (PTI) Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday supported the demand of caste census of Backward Classes and favoured the state Assembly passing a resolution on the demand and sending it to the Centre, which has maintained that it is an "administratively difficult and cumbersome exercise." Rao, who was replying to a short discussion in the Assembly on the state government"s "Dalit Bandhu" scheme, spoke about the demand for caste census of Backward Classes.
Referring to BJP member M Raghunandan Rao"s speech earlier, he asked why the Centre was refusing the caste census demand and had also filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court recently that it cannot carry out such an exercise.
The Centre on September 23 told the Supreme Court that conducting caste census of Backward Classes is "administratively difficult and cumbersome" and called exclusion of such information from the purview of the census a "conscious policy decision." In its affidavit in the apex court, the government said that caste enumeration in Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 was "fraught" with mistakes and inaccuracies..
"Definitely, BC caste census should be done.
Why should it not happen? We will also pass a resolution in the assembly and send it.
If it is justified, it should happen.