DATA OF CASTE CENSUS COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED RELIABLE FOR OBC COUNT AS BASED ON THE SECC 2011

ORDER FOR OBC COUNT :-- During this August the Bihar Chief Minister and the leader of the opposition met with the Prime minister to order for the OBC counting as part of the fresh census which was scheduled to begin in 2021 but delayed because of the covid-19 pandemic,the centre stated that govt has not decided to count the OBC cast enumeration in the census 2021 because enumeration of OBCs/ BCCc  has always been declared as per the census of castes held during the pre independence period so the data is not said to be accurate and there is no dependable caste based census .The data is based on the analysis of SECC Assuming that some castes may be bifurcated in to the sub castes the total number can not be exponentially high to this extent and the SECC data of 2011 making it unusable for any Official purpose and could not be agreed as the official document Further it stated before the court of law that due to above said reasons of the details available in the record of the census pertaining to the castes is not reliable either for the purpose of any reservation or elections to the local bodies, employment, admission etc etc