October 03, 2023 / 01:26 PM IST

Bihar Caste Census LIVE: What did the survey discover?

-According to the info launched right here by Development Commissioner Vivek Singh, the whole inhabitants of Bihar stood at a bit of over 13.07 crore, out of which the Extremely Backward Classes (36 per cent) have been the most important social section adopted by the Other Backward Classes at 27.13 per cent.

-The Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) collectively represent greater than 63% of the inhabitants in Bihar.

-The survey additionally said that Yadavs, the OBC group to which Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav belongs, have been the most important by way of the inhabitants, accounting for 14.27 per cent of the whole.

-Dalits, often known as the Scheduled Castes, accounted for 19.65 per cent of the whole inhabitants within the state, which can also be house to just about 22 lakh (1.68 per cent) individuals belonging to the Scheduled Tribes.

-Those belonging to the “unreserved” class, which denotes the proverbial “upper castes” who dominated politics until the Mandal wave of the Nineties comprise 15.52 per cent of the whole inhabitants.