The Jharkhand government has announced it will conduct a caste-based survey in the next financial year. The Personnel Department is assigned as the nodal agency for this exercise. This initiative aims ...

Opposition parties, including the Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP), have advocated for a nationwide caste census, viewing it as a vital tool to counter the BJP. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and SP ...

Bihar is in the midst of an unprecedented exercise — the caste-based survey — and in Kalyanbigha ... It’s one of the 216 castes listed in Kavita’s form. An OBC and agrarian caste to ...

The Congress leader once again dismissed Bihar’s caste-based survey and pitched for the caste census conducted in Telangana. Addressing a function to celebrate the birth anniversary of freedom ...

The proposed caste-based survey will be conducted in Jharkhand ... in the next financial year on the pattern of Telangana and Bihar," he said. Mr Pradip urged the government to include Sarna ...

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said the caste census of Bihar has proved that 84 per cent of people in the state are OBCs, SCs and STs and their share should be according to their population.

Kumar comes from the Dalit community which constitutes around 20 percent of the state's population, according to the Bihar government's caste-based survey report released in October 2023.

Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav during question hour on Monday raised the issue of pending caste census in the State. He drew the attention of the State Government in completing the caste census in the ...

The Jharkhand government on Monday (March 24, 2025) announced that it would conduct a caste-based survey in the State ... year on the lines of Telangana and Bihar. Mr. Yadav urged the government ...

Bihar state’s caste-based population survey could increase PM Modi’s challenges ahead of next year's parliamentary election.