00:00It is well understood that Congress and its Indian alliance partners have used caste census only as a political tool.
00:10As per article 246 of the Constitution of India, the subject census is listed at 69 in the union list in 7th schedule.
00:22According to Constitution of India, census is a union subject.
00:26Congress Governments have always opposed caste census.
00:32Caste was not included in all the census operations conducted since independence.
00:38In 2010, then Prime Minister late Dr. Manmohan Singhji had assured the Lok Sabha that the matter of caste census should be considered in the Cabinet.
00:49A group of ministers was formed to consider this subject.
00:52Most of the political parties had recommended caste census.
00:57Despite this, Congress government decided to conduct only a survey of caste instead of a caste census.
01:05That survey is known as SECC.
01:09It is well understood that Congress and its Indian alliance partners have used caste census only as a political tool.
01:17As per article 246 of the Constitution of India, the subject census is listed at 69 in the union list in 7th schedule.
01:30According to Constitution of India, census census is a union subject.
01:35Some states have conducted surveys to enumerate caste, some states have done this well, while some others have conducted such surveys purely from a political angle in a non-transparent way.
01:52Such surveys have created doubts in the society.
01:56Considering all these facts and to ensure that a social fabric is not disturbed by politics,
02:04caste enumeration should be transparently included
02:08I am emphasizing the word transparently included in the censors instead of surveys.
02:17This will strengthen the social and economic structure of our society while the nation continues to progress.
02:23Under the leadership of our Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi ji, the Cabinet Committee of Political Affairs has decided today that caste enumeration should be included in the forthcoming census.
02:41This demonstrates that a government is committed to the values and interests of a society and country, like in the past when a government had introduced 10% reservation for the economically weaker sections of the society without causing any stress in any section of the society.
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