Indian population: The final census
population data is crucial for policy formulation for any group or community. With this in mind, the British government initiated the census in India, which has continued even after independence.
The first post-independence census was conducted in 1951, and since then, a total of seven censuses have been carried out until 2011, at intervals of every ten years. However, for the first time since independence, the 2021 census, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has yet to take place.
With the approval of the Kovind Committee's report on «One Nation, One Election» by the Cabinet, hopes for conducting the census have risen, as it is crucial for the delimitation of the Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies.
There is currently a demand for a caste-based census in the country. The British Raj conducted a caste-based census in 1931, in line with their «divide and rule» policy. However, the political parties advocating for a caste-based census today did not release the data of the caste-based census conducted in 2011.
Once again, efforts are being made to drag the country into the quagmire of caste politics. Caste-based census has now become a political issue because it paves the way for influencing votes through freebies and gaining power. If the taxpayers, whose money funds these schemes by which the political parties influence the voters by electoral promises, demand a caste-based sharing among taxpayers, political parties will find themselves in a dilemma.
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