Bihar: State govt to take suggestions on caste-based census from all political parties, says CM Nitish Kumar

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that the state government will take suggestions for the caste-based census from all the political parties.

 "Decisions have been made on caste-based census and the department is already preparing for it. That'll take almost a month but will start the work soon. We'll keep informing parties about it and take suggestions from them. This is in favour of all communities," the chief minister told.

Bihar government on Thursday approved a caste-based census in the state. The government has allocated Rs 500 crore for the survey. The exercise will be completed by February next year.

At the state level, the survey will be carried out by the General Administration Department, and at the district level, DM will be the nodal officer. Both of these will be in charge of the panchayat level and block level.

Leaders of all nine political parties were present in the meeting that was held to discuss the caste-based census. Many leaders in the meeting gave various suggestions to the Chief Minister.

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The Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav had declared the announcement as a "win" and said, "It's a caste-based survey, not a census. It's our win. Today we suggested (in the all-party meeting) that social anthropologists should be included in this and the Central government should also support it financially.

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