The government has no plans to release at this stage the caste data collected under the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. The Supreme Court Wednesday ...

In India, identifying deprived households has historically been a challenging task since everyone wants to be classified as poor to become eligible for State assistance. But poverty is relative, so ...

Lalu Prasad Yadav: We demand release of the caste data as per the socio-economic caste census (SECC). Mainstream media (English) and the Congress party: More than 50 % of the households in rural areas ...

Since independence, every Census from 1951 to 2011 has collected and published data on SCs and STs, but not on other caste groups. With the Centre announcing that caste enumeration will be part of the ...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved the proposal of the Department of Rural Development for cost revision of the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011. New ...

Amid the growing demand for caste census from several opposition parties and the centre stonewalling it, the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI has opened a criminal investigation to probe alleged ...

New Delhi, Apr 4 (PTI) Adopting a targeted approach for poverty eradication, the Centre has decided to use the SECC 2011 census instead of BPL data for selecting beneficiaries of state-run social ...

Enumeration of manual scavengers as a separate category has been completely left out of the urban SECC 2011 in Rajasthan. As per the ministry of rural development, Government of India guidelines, ...

The Backward Classes (BC) Commission will conduct its study to assess the socio-economic backwardness of a community. The Commission will not go by the socio-economic caste census (SECC) conducted by ...

Adopting a targeted approach for poverty eradication, the Centre has decided to use the SECC 2011 census instead of BPL data for selecting beneficiaries of state-run social welfare schemes. The ...

New Delhi, Jul 26 (PTI) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved the proposal of the Department of Rural Development for cost revision of the Socio Economic and Caste Census ...