'What's wrong with it?' On caste census, SC says govt should know the numbers

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court connected Wednesday dismissed a petition challeging the Centre's determination to clasp caste enumeration arsenic a portion of the upcoming Census saying that determination was "nothing incorrect with it.

"A seat comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, justness Joymalya Bagchi and justness Vipul Pancholi was proceeding a PIL which argued that "plenty of accusation and figures were disposable with the authorities connected caste details," PTI reported.The SC dismissed the PIL saying that "government indispensable cognize however galore radical are backward class, what benignant of payment measures are to beryllium taken for them". "These are each argumentation matters, whether the Census should beryllium caste-based oregon not. What is incorrect with it? … the authorities indispensable cognize arsenic to however galore radical are successful the backward class, what benignant of payment measures are to beryllium taken for them. It is wrong the argumentation domain," PTI quoted the CJI saying.The 2027 Census, officially India’s 16th nationalist Census, volition beryllium the archetypal since 1931 to see a broad caste enumeration and the country’s archetypal afloat integer colonisation count.