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HYDERABAD
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and MLC B. Mahesh Kumar Goud has welcomed the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to exclude caste enumeration from the 2027 Census. He urged the Union authorities to travel the Telangana exemplary and behaviour a nationwide caste census to beforehand societal equity and inclusive governance.
In a connection issued here, Mr. Goud said that the Congress had consistently advocated a broad caste census to code deep-rooted societal and economical inequalities. He noted that the caste survey conducted by the Telangana authorities was carried retired successful a transparent and systematic manner, and could service arsenic a exemplary for different States.
He said caste enumeration was indispensable for ensuring equitable opportunities for backward and marginalised communities successful proportionality to their population.
Mr. Goud added that the caste survey undertaken successful Telangana, nether the enactment of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and with the enactment of ministers and nationalist representatives, had been a palmy exercise. He said caste enumeration would play a important relation successful ensuring societal justice, adjacent opportunities and a just organisation of payment benefits.
Former Telangana BC Commission Chairman Vakulabharanam Krishna Mohan Rao besides welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision, describing it arsenic a antiauthoritarian measurement successful favour of societal justness and law governance. He observed that the Centre’s determination to see caste enumeration successful the 2nd signifier of the 2027 Census marked a important argumentation initiative.
Welcoming the dismissal of petitions challenging the Centre’s decision, National BC Welfare Association president and MP (Rajya Sabha) R. Krishnaiah called it a historical development.
According to him, the Centre argued that caste plays a cardinal relation successful shaping social, economical and surviving conditions, and that specified information is indispensable for argumentation decisions related to education, employment and payment of backward communities.
