Is 2011 census caste based?
The 2011 caste census collected data on all castes, and not just of the OBCs.
What is census caste?
Caste census means inclusion of caste-wise tabulation of India’s population in the Census exercise, which is a decennial count of the Indian population. The demand to include caste in the census is long-pending.
What kind of caste data is published in the census?
Caste census published in July 2014 Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 conducted by the Registrar General of India has come out with 46,73,034 categories of caste, sub-caste, synonyms, different surnames, gotras in the caste and clan names.
Should caste be considered for census?
A “caste census” must mean what it implies—a comprehensive enumeration of all castes. Anything less—such as adding an OBC count to the existing enumeration of SCs and STs, while leaving the upper castes uncounted—will not do.
Why caste based census is important?
It is indeed strange that while caste plays such a dominant role in our social, economic and political life, no credible and comprehensive caste data exists for more than half the population of our country.
Which state has more Brahmins in India?
According to 2007 reports, Brahmins in India are about five percent of its total population. The Himalayan states of Uttarakhand (20%) and Himachal Pradesh (14%) have the highest percentage of Brahmin population relative to respective state’s total Hindus.
What are the castes in Karnataka?
According to the ‘caste census’, Dalits form 19.5% of the state’s population, tribals 5%, Muslims 16%, Kurubas 7%, rest of the OBCs 16%, Lingayats 14%, Vokkaligas 11%, Brahmins 3%, Christians 3%, Buddhists and Jains together 2%, and the others account for 4%. Karnataka’s total population is around 6 crore.
Who is the biggest caste in Karnataka?
The Scheduled Castes (SCs) account for 19.5% of the total population in the state, making it the single-largest caste entity. Muslims come next, making up 16% of the population. These two groups are followed by the Lingayats and Vokkaligas, who make up 14% and 11% of the population, respectively.
Is Karnataka’s Caste Census the Last Caste Census in India?
Consecutive governments in Karnataka have refrained from making the contents of the only Caste census held by an Indian state post 1931 available. India’s politics continues to be dominated by caste but yet actual numbers or data on caste breakup in the country has not been divulged for 90 years now.
What is the percentage of Scheduled Castes in rural India?
The provisional rural data of SECC 2011 shows Scheduled Castes at 18.46% (or 15.88 crore), Scheduled Tribes at 10.97% (9.27 crore), Others at 68.52%, and 2.04% (or 36.57 lakh) as “No Caste & Tribe” households. There are 24.49 crore (243.9 million) households in India, of which 17.97 (179.7 million) crore live in villages.
Are lingayats the most numerically dominant castes in Karnataka?
The report, according to sources, revealed that Scheduled Castes form the largest community in the state, followed by Muslims. This challenges the narrative that has dominated Karnataka politics that Lingayats and Vokkaligas are the most numerically dominant castes.
Who approved the socio economic and Caste Census 2011?
The Manmohan Singh government approved the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 to be carried out after discussion in both houses of Parliament in 2010. The SECC 2011 was conducted in all states and union territories of India and the first findings were revealed on 3 July 2015 by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.