Caste Census: Importance and Impact on India

Caste Census: Importance and Impact on India

Author: Pranali Padwe , student of RTMNU’S Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar college of law main branch Nagpur 

Introduction 

 Caste Census means a Statics of population of the country on the basis of caste. It collect the socio-economic information of the population. The main aim of caste census is to find out the backward classes in the society, create good policies for them and provide them facilities of the government, as a upper cast population most of the time overwhelmed the opportunity provided to all the citizens. Caste census help to understand and fill the gap of reservation policies 

Origin: In India caste census held by the British government in 1881 during colonial exercise. Caste census on the basis of socio-economic condition was held by the British government in 1931.

Importance of cast census

India is a democratic country at the same time historical inequality have had happened with many people of different caste by that result most of them marginalized by the society. To bring the all citizen on the equal level reservation provided to the backward classes, by the government. To know the backward classes and marginalized section of the society caste census is going to held so that government can made best reservation policies as well as to attend large number of issues that every democratic country need to. The importance of caste census is to bring all citizen of country on equal footing by addressing their issues and uplifting them.

Socio-economic cast census 2011

In India last caste census held by the Indian government in 2011 on all India basis and the results are revealed in 2016. The collected date has an information about the structure of house of household, ownership status, main source of income. Regular census is carried out under census act 1948, according to this act government must keep individual personal information confidential. However personal information given in the socio-economic caste census is open for use by the government.

Impact of 2011 socio-economic cast census

The 2011 socio-economic caste census data was published in 2016. The government said that the entire data is imperfect and government is not able to relied upon, so it is unusable for the purpose of reservation and policy making. It takes lost of time and money of the government to collect the data of citizens during this census but the government refused the used of this data by saying that it is flawed, it makes all the work worthless. 

Conclusion

India is a country where equality stands before the law and law must equally protect it. The first responsibility of any democratic country is to destroy discrimination among the citizens and treat them equal, however India had a larger scale of historical inequality within some classes and to uplift them reservation is going to provide and to know the marginalized section caste census is necessary 

Suggestions 

To find out backward classes cast census is necessary, it might be created discrimination among people but proper use of that data will definitely help for betterment of reservation policies, through caste census government can address the issues of peoples of backward classes, Can remove the section of the society which got uplift and add other unrecognized section. And for this caste census need to done in proper way.

Reference

Socio Economic and cast census (SECC) 2011 https://secc.gov.in/