Politics● LowSep 25 · Sep 25, 2026, 4:17 PM
Government yet to decide how open-column caste data will be sorted, tabulated
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hindu · South Asia
Opposition parties and OBC groups are against the open-column option in the 2027 Census; they say the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census also had an open field to record caste, yielding over 46 lakh caste names; successive governments did not act on that report, says experts
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