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HC directs govt to conduct caste-wise census

Directs centre to go for caste-wise census enumeration keeping in view increase in SC, OBC population and reservation

PTI | May 13, 2010

Madras High Court today issued a fresh direction to the Centre to conduct caste-wise census in the country.

Allowing a PIL by lawyer R Krishnamoorthy, a Division Bench yesterday directed the Census Commissioner to take all steps to hold caste-wise enumeration.

The bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice T S Sivagnanam said the relief sought by the petitioner had already been answered in the affirmative by the court in an earlier verdict on a writ petition.

In its October 2009 judgement, the court had noted that after 1931 there had never been any caste-wise enumeration or tabulation.

"When there cannot be any dispute that there is an increase in the population of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Classes manifold after 1931, the percentage of reservation fixed on the basis of population in 1931 has to be proportionately increased by conducting caste-wise census," it had then held.

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