Key Highlights
- Stalin on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to ensure that the Union government adopts a consultative approach with all States and Union Territories before finalising the guidelines for enumerating castes in the forthcoming Population Census.
- In his letter, Mr.
- Stalin urged Mr.
- Modi to put in place a consultative mechanism involving Chief Ministers and representatives of States to discuss and refine the guidelines for caste enumeration and to exercise due diligence in designing the framework, including pilot-testing where necessary, to safeguard the sensitivity of the process and ensure the data’s reliability for advancing social justice.
- The Chief Minister said enumeration of caste in the national Census had far-reaching implications for social justice, equitable policymaking, and the federal structure of the nation.
