New Delhi:

No different physique apart from the Union Government can conduct a caste census, the Supreme Court was informed at this time. The Centre, in an affidavit, asserted that the Census Act, 1948, empowers solely the Government to conduct the census. The transfer is a problem to the Bihar authorities which in an earlier listening to knowledgeable the Supreme Court that an train of conducting surveys of the caste census in Bihar was carried out by August 6 and the information gathered uploaded by August 12.

The Supreme Court, on August 21, had allowed Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, to file its response on the difficulty inside seven days after he stated the survey may have some penalties. Today was the seventh day.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has hit out on the Centre for submitting the affidavit. They haven’t any data. They solely know easy methods to lie and suppress the reality. They have opposed it even within the affidavit. It has been made clear that the BJP doesn’t need it (caste census) and is opposing it. If they assist it, then they need to conduct it (caste census) throughout the nation,” he said

Senior BJP leader and former deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Modi, however, said that his party supports caste census but “in accordance with the Census Act, solely the Centre can conduct a caste survey.”

The Government said that it is committed to taking all affirmative actions for the “upliftment of SCS/STS/SEBCs and OBCs in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of India and the relevant regulation.”

Various petitions have been moved in the Supreme Court challenging the Patna High Court judgment upholding the caste survey ordered by the Bihar Government.

In the August 21 hearing, the top court told the petitioners that it will not stay the exercise unless they made out a prima facie case against it.

The Patna High Court had earlier dismissed the pleas challenging the Nitish Kumar government’s decision to conduct the survey based on castes. The high court had said in its 101-page verdict, “We discover the motion of the state to be completely legitimate, initiated with due competence with the reputable intention of offering growth with justice….”

The Bihar caste survey would cowl an estimated inhabitants of 12.70 crores in an estimated 2.58 crore households in 38 districts, which have 534 blocks and 261 city native our bodies. Chief Minister NItish Kumar insists that the caste survey can be useful for all sections of the society.