In the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that the government wants to avoid census and caste census. Demanding to conduct census and caste census early, he said that due to delay in this process, many people are being deprived of taking advantage of public welfare schemes.
Raising this issue in the Zero Hour in the Upper House, Kharge said, “The census in India was started in 1881 and the census continued despite all the emergency situation, war and other crisis.” He said that there was a caste census in 1931 and before that census Mahatma Gandhi said that the same type of medical examination is necessary for the examination of the same nation. Is.
Kharge said that census is a very important thing that gets many information. He said that there was a census during the Second World War and the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971-72, but sadly, the government has delayed records in the census for the first time in history.
He said that if the government wants, it is also possible to census caste -based census. He said that data about Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Publicity is collected in the census, can be collected in the figures of other castes.
The Leader of Opposition said that many people are being deprived of taking advantage of welfare schemes due to not being conducted on time. Kharge said that 81 percent of the countries of the world have completed the census process despite the Korona epidemic, but nothing is being said clearly about when the census will take place in India. He said that this year the budget of only 575 crores has been allocated in the budget, so it seems that this government wants to avoid the census.
He said that delay in census has far -reaching consequences and various welfare schemes depend on the result of the census.
