'90% sitting outside system': Rahul's fresh pitch for caste census

Pressing the demand for a nationwide "caste census", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said 90 per cent people of the country are sitting out of the system and the step should be taken in......

No plan to release 2011 caste census data at this stage: Govt

The government has no plans to release at this stage the caste data collected under the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. IMAGE: A census exercise......

SC rejects Maharashtra plea for caste census 2011 data from Centre

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by the Maharashtra government seeking a direction to the Centre and other authorities to disclose to the state the Socio-Economic and Caste......

Cong supports 'historic' nationwide caste census: Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the party's working committee has taken a "historic decision" unanimously to support the idea of a nationwide caste census, asserting that it is a......

NITI Aayog plays safe on poverty

Not to estimate poverty lines or absolute numbers; will take these from ongoing socio-eco caste census done by states, focus on impact of programmes Taking note of some hard lessons learnt by its......

New panel to review India's poverty data

The Tendulkar Committee's recommendations on poverty have run out of takers, at least in the political circles. Under pressure from all sides over its estimate of people living below the poverty......

Poverty in India falls but poor get poorer

New Planning Commission data show poverty has declined eight per cent in the past five years.But, the bad news is the updated poverty estimates of the Tendulkar Committee have lowered the poverty......

India remains mostly rural and poor

  We can get a measure of the rural poverty from the fact that 38.3 per cent of households are landless and earn mostly from casual labour, notes Subir Roy It is not as if we did not know a......