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India Gazette
4 days ago
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- India Gazette
"Congress's job is to raise questions": Sukanta Majumdar
Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], June 18 (ANI): Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar made a strong statement on Tuesday regarding the caste census, accusing Congress and opposition parties of trying to delay the process. Speaking to ANI, Majumdar said, 'Congress's job is to raise questions, there is nothing new in this... The last census was done in 2011; now, the time has come for the census, and the caste census will be done.' He added that the government had already planned the programme and was moving ahead with it in a structured manner. 'Our government plans the programme for the country... Congress and the rest of the opposition want to postpone it by any means,' he said. His remarks came after the decision to issue a gazette notification for the 16th Census, with caste enumeration. On Monday, Sukanta Majumdar welcomed the decision to issue a gazette notification for the 16th Census with caste enumeration, and said that it will help the government in planning for the future. Sukanta Majumdar said, 'We welcome this decision. It was pending since long time. Census will start from March 1, 2027. It will help the government in planning for the future after getting the data of the census.' He alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee created an OBC-A category and gave reservations to Muslims. The central government notified the population census on Monday, the process of which will begin in March 2027. Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday reviewed the preparations for the upcoming Census during a meeting in New Delhi along with Union Home Secretary, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG& CCI) and other senior officials. Sharing the details in a post on X, Amit Shah said, 'Reviewed the preparations for the 16th Census with senior officials. Tomorrow, the gazette notification of the census will be issued. The census will include caste enumeration for the first time. As many as 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors and around 1.3 lakh census functionaries will conduct the operation with cutting-edge mobile digital gadgets.' (ANI)
India Gazette
4 days ago
- Politics
- India Gazette
"Congress's job is to raise questions, there is nothing new": Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on caste census
Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], June 18 (ANI): Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar made a strong statement on Tuesday regarding the caste census, accusing Congress and opposition parties of trying to delay the process. Speaking to ANI, Majumdar said, 'Congress's job is to raise questions, there is nothing new in this... The last census was done in 2011; now, the time has come for the census, and the caste census will be done.' He added that the government had already planned the programme and was moving ahead with it in a structured manner. 'Our government plans the programme for the country... Congress and the rest of the opposition want to postpone it by any means,' he said. His remarks came after the decision to issue a gazette notification for the 16th Census, with caste enumeration. On Monday, Sukanta Majumdar welcomed the decision to issue a gazette notification for the 16th Census with caste enumeration, and said that it will help the government in planning for the future. Sukanta Majumdar said, 'We welcome this decision. It was pending since long time. Census will start from March 1, 2027. It will help the government in planning for the future after getting the data of the census.' He alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee created an OBC-A category and gave reservations to Muslims. The central government notified the population census on Monday, the process of which will begin in March 2027. Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday reviewed the preparations for the upcoming Census during a meeting in New Delhi along with Union Home Secretary, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG& CCI) and other senior officials. Sharing the details in a post on X, Amit Shah said, 'Reviewed the preparations for the 16th Census with senior officials. Tomorrow, the gazette notification of the census will be issued. The census will include caste enumeration for the first time. As many as 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors and around 1.3 lakh census functionaries will conduct the operation with cutting-edge mobile digital gadgets.' (ANI)
India Gazette
5 days ago
- Politics
- India Gazette
"Complete absence of caste census in notification raises lots of doubts": Congress leader Supriya Shrinate
New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI): Congress leader Supriya Shrinate on Monday said that complete 'absence' of the term caste census in the government's gazette notification issued for 16th Census has raised questions over the mindset of the BJP on this subject. Speaking to ANI, Shrinate recalled that the government had earlier promised that a caste census will conducted by them. 'Census is a decadal exercise and it has been delayed which is why people are not able to get the benefits of government schemes. This is a routine notification. There is no mention of the caste census here, a promise that the government said would be fulfilled on April 30,' Shrinate said. Asserting that BJP has always opposed the idea of caste-based reservations, Shrinate pointed out that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge have forced the government to conduct a caste census. 'BJP should be the last one talking about the SC/ST and OBC as they have historically been against the constitution... Pt. Nehru brought the first amendment to the constitution about reservation, but it was opposed by Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee... RSS Chiefs opposed the reservations... This government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in September 2021 saying we are against the Caste Census,' she said. Earlier today, Congress General Secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi over 'no mention' of caste census in the gazette notification for the population census by the Ministry of Home Affairs, asking, 'Has the Prime Minister changed his mind?' 'Today's gazette notification says only census will be done in late October of 2026 in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal and the rest of the country it will be done in March 2027. It does not talk of the word caste census. So my question is, has the Prime Minister changed his mind again? Why is there no mention of the caste census?' the senior Congress leader said while speaking to ANI. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a notification on Monday announcing that the 16th census will be carried out in snow-bound non-synchronous areas of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand from October 2026 and the rest of the country from March 2027. 'In exercise of the powers conferred by Section three of the Census Act 1948 and in suppression of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs dated March 26, 2018, the Central Government declared that a census of the population of India shall be taken during the year 2027,' the MHA notification read. The reference date for the census shall be March 1, 2027, except for the Union territory of Ladakh and the snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. On April 30, Union Minister Ashiwni Vaishnaw announced that the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has decided to include caste enumeration in the general census. (ANI)
India Gazette
5 days ago
- Politics
- India Gazette
Sukanta Majumdar welcomes decision to issue gazette notification for Census with caste enumeration
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 16 (ANI): Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar welcomed the decision to issue a gazette notification for the 16th Census with caste enumeration, and said that it will help the government in planning for the future. Sukanta Majumdar said, 'We welcome this decision. It was pending since long time. Census will start from March 1, 2027. It will help the government in planning for the future after getting the data of the census.' He alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee created an OBC-A category and gave reservation to Muslims. 'It is not a reservation on the basis of caste. It is a reservation based on religion. You cannot give a reservation on the basis of being Muslim because it is anti-Constitutional. So from back door Muslim reservation is being given. Karnataka tried to do it, which is anti-Constitutional. Mamata Banerjee had to give reservation to Muslims for vote bank so she is doing it from backdoor. In Bengal, there is 17 per cent reservation for OBC. Why is it not being increased when it is 27 per cent in the country? She is depriving the OBC and giving it to Muslims,' he added. The Central government on Monday notified the population census, the process of which will begin in March 2027. As per a gazette notification released by the Ministry of Home Affairs, 'In exercise of the powers conferred by Section three of the Census Act 1948 and in suppression of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs dated March 26, 2018, the Central Government declared that a census of the population of India shall be taken during the year 2027, as per a circular released by the Ministry of Home Affairs.' The reference date for the census shall be March 1, 2027, except for the Union territory of Ladakh and the snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The reference date for the Union Territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand will be October 1, 2026. On June 15, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the preparations for the upcoming Census during a meeting in New Delhi along with Union Home Secretary, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG& CCI) and other senior officials. Sharing the details in a post on X, Amit Shah said, 'Reviewed the preparations for the 16th Census with senior officials. Tomorrow, the gazette notification of the census will be issued. The census will include caste enumeration for the first time. As many as 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors and around 1.3 lakh census functionaries will conduct the operation with cutting-edge mobile digital gadgets.' 'The Census will be conducted in two phases. In phase 1, House Listing Operation (HLO), the housing conditions, assets and amenities of each household will be collected,' he added. Subsequently, in the second phase, Population Enumeration (PE), the demographic, socio-economic, cultural and other details of every person in each household will be collected. In the Census, Caste enumeration will also be done. For Census activities, about 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors and around 1.3 lakh Census functionaries would be deployed. This is the 16th Census since its beginning and the 8ht since Independence. (ANI)
United News of India
6 days ago
- Politics
- United News of India
Cong slams census notification, demands clarity on caste enumeration
New Delhi, June 16 (UNI) Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday criticised the Gazette notification issued by the Government on the 16th Census, calling it a "damp squib" that offers no clarity and "remains silent on the inclusion of caste data'. On his social media handle X, Ramesh said that the notification merely reiterates what was already announced on April 30, 2025, and questioned the government's intent regarding caste enumeration. Ramesh alleged, 'It is entirely because of the persistence and insistence of the Indian National Congress that the PM surrendered to the demand for a caste census. He had called Congress leaders as urban Naxals for making this demand'. The Modi government had earlier rejected the idea of a caste census in both Parliament and the Supreme Court, the Rajya Sabha MP alleged. 'Today's Gazette Notification is, however, SILENT on the inclusion of caste in the 16th Census. Is this yet another U-turn by the ustad of U-turns? Or will details be announced later?' Ramesh asked, targetting the PM. Reiterating the party's demand that the 16th Census adopt the Telangana model, Ramesh said, 'The INC firmly believes that the 16th Census must adopt the Telangana model for not just caste enumeration but also bringing out detailed data information on socio-economic parameters caste-wise'. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) officially notified that the next Census of the population of India will be conducted in the year 2027. Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday reviewed the preparation for the forthcoming Census of India here with Union Home Secretary, Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI), and other senior officials. UNI RBE RN
