Nothing wrong in caste count: SC; rejects plea against move
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said there was nothing wrong in the government of the day ascertaining caste as part of the ongoing nationwide Census exercise.“Any government of the day must know how many people are backward and how many need welfare. This is a matter of policy,” Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, heading a three-judge Bench, said.
The top court was responding to a plea filed by petitioner-in-person Sudhakar Gummula that caste enumeration should not be made part of Census 2027.
“There are endless possibilities of politicians and corporate entities misusing the caste data. There is no justification for gathering such a large tract of data on caste,” Mr. Gummula submitted.
The Chief Justice said it was not within the top court’s domain to decide whether a caste enumeration should necessarily be a part of Census 2027 or not.
“This issue exclusively comes within the policy domain,” the CJI said before the court dismissed the petition.
The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs had decided to include caste enumeration in Census 2027 at a meeting held in April 2025.
Since then, caste enumeration has emerged as a major feature of the Census. Until the 2011 Census, the exercise had included the systematic enumeration of only Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
The government had said on the floor of Parliament about the incorporation of the caste enumeration in the second phase of Census 2027.
Two phases
The first phase involved the collection of the House Listing Operation (HLO) information regarding housing conditions, assets, amenities and so on of each household.
The second phase, Population Enumeration, would involve the collection of demographic, socio-economic, cultural and other details.
Former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar had said that “thoughtfully collected caste data would be an instrument of integration, like an MRI of the body”.
The last comprehensive nationwide caste Census was conducted in colonial India in 1931.
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