Reiterating his demand for a caste-based census in the country, Nitish saidBiharassembly had unanimously passed a resolution on February 18, 2019 and again on February 27, 2020, seeking caste-wise enumeration of Population. He said both the resolutions were sent to the Centre with a request to hold caste-wise enumeration.
Nitish also pointed out that the socio-economic caste census (SECC) was conducted in the country after 2010. As the SECC was not conducted properly, no meaningful result came out of it. The SECCs report was prepared in 2013, but it was never published or put in public domain. The caste-based census must be conducted once so that people could be aware of the population of poor families (except SC/ ST). Once a caste-based census is conducted, people and planners would know the accurate population of any specific caste, theCMsaid.