Cabinet approves caste and BPL census
PTI
New Delhi, May 19:
A head count to identify the poor, including their caste and religion,
was on Thursday approved by the government which aims at ensuring that
the benefits of targeted subsidy programme reach them.
A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan
Singh, gave its nod for conducting a census in rural and urban areas
to identify those living below poverty line (BPL).
The enumeration on the basis of caste and religion would be part of
the census that would begin in June and end by December this year,
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ms Ambika Soni said after the
cabinet meeting.
This is the first time that the mammoth head count is being carried
out to identify the poor along with their caste and religion. While
the last BPL census was carried out in 2002, this is the first effort
to carry out caste census since 1931.
The paper-less exercise would be carried out by the state governments
through low-cost hand-held devices to be manufactured by state-run
Bharat Electronics Limited. It would help identify the proportion of
every religion and caste among the BPL category.
While the BPL data for urban and rural poor would be utilised for the
12th Plan, the targeted subsidy schemes as well as the Unique
Identification programme (UID), the data on caste and religion would
remain confidential.
The Ministries of Rural Development, Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation and the Registrar General of India would jointly conduct
the census.
"This completely fulfils the assurance given by government in
Parliament to have caste-based census along with the socio-economic
profiling. Political leaders demanded this", Ms Soni said.
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