Asserting that caste-primarily based totally census will gain all sections of the society, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday stated the reason of the exercising is to perform developmental paintings for the folks who are deprived.
The enumeration exercising will begin withinside the country from Saturday.
“The caste-primarily based totally headcount might be useful for all… It will permit the authorities to paintings for the improvement of diverse sections of the society, such as folks who are deprived. After final touch of the enumeration exercising…, the very last document might be despatched to Centre additionally,” Kumar stated at the same time as interacting with journalists on the second one day of his ‘Samadhan Yatra’ in Sheohar district.
“The exercising is basically ‘Jaati Aadharit Ganana’. People belonging to each faith and caste might be blanketed all through the exercising. Proper schooling has been imparted to officers who’re concerned withinside the procedure of engaging in the caste-primarily based totally headcount,”Mr Kumar stated.
The enumeration exercising will begin withinside the country from Saturday. The authorities will behavior the exercising in stages. In the primary phase, on the way to be over through January 21, the range of all families withinside the country might be counted.
In the second one, beginning from March, information relating human beings of all castes, sub-castes and religions might be gathered. Enumerators, whose schooling started out on December 15, may even document statistics approximately the monetary popularity of all human beings.
The exercising might be finished through May, 2023. Earlier, the exercising become prepurported to be finished through February 2023. The country authorities will spend ₹ 500 crore from its contingency fund for the exercising. The popular management branch is the nodal authority for the survey.
“Data might be gathered digitally via a cell utility as a part of the survey, from the panchayat to the district stage. The app may have questions on place, caste, the range of human beings in a family, their profession, and annual income. Census employees encompass teachers, Anganwadi, MGNREGA or Jeevika employees,” stated, Chandrashekhar Singh, Patna District Magistrate. The exercising might be carried out in overall 12,696 blocks in Patna district, he stated.
Caste-primarily based totally be counted number has been a main trouble in Bihar politics, with Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and all ingredients of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ lengthy been worrying that the exercising be undertaken on the earliest. The Congress-led UPA authorities on the Centre had agreed to behavior the exercising on the country wide stage in 2010, however the information gathered all through the census had been in no way processed.
The country authorities launched into the exercising withinside the wake of the Centre expressing its incapacity to adopt caste-primarily based totally enumeration aside from the SCs and STs. It has been the competition of Nitish Kumar, himself an OBC, and the RJD, which emerged withinside the thick of the Mandal era, a sparkling estimate of diverse social organizations become crucial because the ultimate caste census held in 1931.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister additionally visited Sitamarhi district on Friday. He reviewed numerous ongoing developmental tasks of the country authorities in Dumra sub-division. Later, the CM chaired a high-stage assembly attended through senior officers of the country authorities.
The Chief Minister will go to Vaishali district on Saturday. Subsequently, a comparable exercising might be held in Siwan and Saran (Chapra) on January eight and 9, respectively, marked through night time live at Patna on every day. A overall 18 districts might be blanketed until January 29 through the CM all through the yatra.
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