Caste census will be launched from four states along with Uttarakhand, work will start in October 2026

The central government has issued a notification regarding the caste census. The government is going to conduct the caste census in two phases. The first phase will start from four hill states, which include Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal and Ladakh. According to the press note issued by the Union Home Ministry, the first phase of the caste census will start from October 1, 2026.

The Union Home Ministry said that in view of the unseasonal snow-covered areas of Himachal and Uttarakhand, apart from the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, caste census was started here from October 1, 2026. Census will be conducted in the rest of the states in 2027.

The Modi government at the Center had taken a decision regarding the caste census a few days ago. The opposition had been making caste census an issue for a long time. Let us tell you that earlier in the year 2011, the Manmohan government of Congress had conducted socio-economic and caste census. However, the data of this survey has not been released till date.

According to the Union Home Ministry, it was also proposed to conduct Census 2021 in two phases in the same way. The first phase was to be conducted during April-September 2020 and the second phase in February 2021. All preparations for the first phase of the census to be conducted in 2021 were completed and field work was scheduled to start in some states/union territories from April 1, 2020. However, the census work had to be postponed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across the country.