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Former Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) subordinate K. S. Chalam has advocated for caste enumeration successful the colonisation census.
Mr. Chalam was speaking astatine the ‘caste census - implications - interaction connected caste system’ symposium held by Comrade Y Vijaykumar Marxist Study Centre astatine the Public Library successful the metropolis connected Monday. Speaking connected the taxable of `Indian Society - Caste Census,’ Mr Chalam said that nary conception of nine volition suffer from the excercise. Though the colonisation of SCs and STs is enumerated, determination is nary nonstop fig connected the colonisation of BCs, helium added.
Mr. Chalam said caste census volition assistance government’s formulate policies successful a technological manner. “It should beryllium taken up for the developmetn and empowerment of BCs,” helium said and advocated for societal and taste agitations successful enactment of caste census.
Osmania University Political Science section prof K. Srinivasulu said colonisation census is not conscionable astir counting the radical but it is simply a survey to ascertain the societal and economical conditions of the people. He maintained that with modernisation the caste strategy has not been erased. Those who are benefitting from the existing sytem are opposing caste census, helium added.
