In Bihar, people of all religions and sects will be counted on the basis of caste
After agreeing in the all-party meeting, approval of the amount to be spent will be taken by presenting it in the cabinet.
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The state government will start the caste-based census in the state soon. For this, a consensus was reached in the all-party meeting on Wednesday. Every type of information will be collected about every person belonging to all religions and sects of the state through the caste-based census. Along with caste, information about the rich and poor including sub-caste, place of residence, and house will also be collected. Its purpose is to identify and develop the marginalized sections and individuals in the state.
State government will bear the expenditure
After the all-party meeting, which lasted from 4 pm to 6 pm at the 'Samvad' Chief Minister's Secretariat at 4 Deshratna Marg, CM Nitish Kumar said that its name would be 'Caste Based Enumeration'. In the meeting, 16 representatives of JDU, BJP, HUM, RJD, Congress, CPI, CPI-ML, CPI(M), AIMIM attended the meeting. The Chief Minister said that the state government would spend in getting the caste-based census done.
consensus in all-party meeting
Now after the consent of the all-party meeting, approval of the amount to be spent will be taken by presenting it in the cabinet. Also, a time limit will be fixed for this. For this, training will be given to the personnel. He said that there are many sub-castes in different castes. All caste and sub-caste will be counted. Our aim is to develop everyone, take them forward.
Caste based census will be done at the state level
The Chief Minister said that its resolution has been passed unanimously twice by the Assembly. After this, the all-party delegation met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and proposed to conduct a caste-based census at the national level. On that the PM had said that it cannot be done at the national level, it can be done at the state level.
Today all the states are considering it
Today all the states are considering it. If this is done in all the states, then it will become automatic at the national level. We want to do caste census very well in Bihar. The Chief Minister said that the decision of caste census would have been taken earlier by holding an all-party meeting, but it was delayed due to the Legislative Council and local body elections.
here are present
In the all-party meeting, apart from the Chief Minister, Tejashwi Yadav and Manoj Jha from RJD, Ministers Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav and Shravan Kumar from JDU, Deputy Chief Minister Tarkisher Prasad and State President Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal from BJP, former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi from CPI, ML from CPI Mehboob Alam, Ram Naresh Pandey and Ram Ratan Singh from CPI, Lalan Chaudhary and Ajay Kumar from CPI, Ajit Sharma from Congress and Akhtarul Iman of AIMIM participated.
Today the cabinet meeting may take the seal
Patna. The state cabinet meeting has been called on Thursday at 5 pm. The representatives of the parties involved in the all-party meeting said that the proposal for caste-based enumeration would be agreed in the cabinet meeting on Thursday. Along with this, the amount of expenditure to be incurred on this will also be stamped. He said that it has come in the discussion that caste-based census will be conducted by the general administration. Other issues will also be stamped.
Information will be given to all parties and media
Regarding caste-based census, the Chief Minister said that after its introduction, everything will be available in the public domain. Everyone can see it. Information about this will be given to the media including political parties from time to time. The Chief Minister said that an advertisement will be given about it after it is passed from the cabinet. It will also be promoted through social media. Its purpose is to make information available to the general public.
BJP agreed, but expressed three apprehensions
Due to caste and sub-caste enumeration, the name of any Rohingya and Bangladeshi should not be added, which later became the basis of citizenship.
It also has to be seen that those who are ahead among Muslims, they do not become backward or very backward under the guise of this calculation. Thousands of such examples are present in Seemanchal, due to which the backwards are enslaved.
There are officially 3747 castes in the country, while the Center has told in the affidavit given in the Supreme Court that in the 2011 survey, the public has given details of 4.30 lakh castes. For this not to happen here, caution is needed.