98% of the caste data is error-free: RGI told House panel in 2016
The Hindu
Error is not in data but in government’s judgement: RJD MP Manoj K. Jha
The Union government last week told the Supreme Court that the in the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 was “unusable”, but in 2016, the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India had informed the Standing Committee on Rural Development that 98.87% of the data on individual caste and religion was “error free”.
In its report analysing the action taken by the government on the recommendations made by the committee on ‘BPL Survey currently (SECC), 2011’, the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, has been quoted as saying that the “data has been examined and 98.87% data on individuals caste and religion is error free”.
The Office of the Registrar-General of India said that errors had been noticed in the data of about 1.34 crore individuals out of the total surveyed population of 118 crore.