Bihar caste survey | OBCs, EBCs comprise more than 63% of population
The Hindu
Bihar Govt. releases caste-based survey report: 36% Extremely Backward Class, 27.13% Other Backward Class, 19.65% Scheduled Caste, 14% Yadavs, 3% Musahars, 3.65% Brahmins.
The Bihar Government has released a report on the caste-based survey it has conducted amid a case pending in the Supreme Court on the validity of such a survey.
According to the report released in Patna on October 2, Bihar has 36% Extremely Backward Class (EBC) population while Other Backward Class (OBC) population is 27.13%.
Hindus population in the State is 81.99 % while Muslim population is 17.70%.
Scheduled Caste (SC) population is 19.65%, while the Yadavs constitute 14%, Musahars are 3% and Brahmins are 3.65% .
It’s all compiled data and no analysis has been done yet on these data, says Development Commissioner Vivek Singh while releasing the caste survey report.
The Bihar Government launched a two-phase caste survey on January 7. The survey recorded the economic status of families alongside their caste, and has estimatedly collected socio-economic data for a population of 12.70 crore in the 38 districts of Bihar.
The Union Government in 2011 had undertaken a survey of castes through the Socio-Economic and Caste Census of 2011 (SECC-2011). However, the data was never made public.
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