SC asks govt to file report on Bihar caste survey: 'Break-up of data should be in public domain'
has to have that particular data," the Supreme Court was quoted by Bar and Bench as saying. Advocate Shyam Divan, appearing for the Bihar government, said the data, including the break-up, has been put in the public domain and anyone can see it on the designated website.
Meanwhile, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said, "It is not a census", but a survey. Justice Khanna said, “What I am more worried about is the availability of break-up of data.
To what extent the government can withhold the data." "You see, the entire break-up of data should be in the public domain so that anyone can challenge the inference drawn from it. Unless it is in the public domain, they can't challenge it," Justice Khanna said.
Meanwhile, Justice Khanna was quoted by Live Law as saying, “What I was concerned about more than census report is that the breakdown of data is not normally made available to the public, which leads to a lot of problems…" “It is in the public domain and being studied," Divan said. To this, Justice Khanna reportedly said, “If it is available fully, then that's a different matter.
The break-up of data should normally be made available to allow people to challenge a particular inference." Senior advocate Raju Ramachandaran, appearing for the petitioners, said that since the survey data is out, the authorities have already started implementing it in the interim and raised the reservation for SCs, STs, Other Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes, and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) to a total of 75 per cent from the existing 50 per cent. ALSO READ: Bihar's caste census is the Queen's Gambit of INDIA bloc against BJP-led NDA for 2024 Lok Sabha Polls The bench then told Ramachandaran, “As far as increasing the
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