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| Caste census cracks Cabinet |
| Caste census cracks Cabinet
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| INDIA
, 26-May-2010
10:3:14 AM |
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With consensus eluding, the government on Wednesday decided to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to take a view on the controversial issue of whether there should be a caste-based census.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, discussed the issue over which various ministers are divided, official sources said.
The Cabinet then decided that a GoM should take a view on the issue, they said. The GoM is likely to be headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
The Cabinet, which first discussed the issue at length on May 4, has been divided on it.
While Law Minister Veerappa Moily and some others are pushing for caste-based census, Home Minister P Chidambaram has reservations on it.
The Home Ministry is understood to have opined that the present exercise of enumeration should go on and caste could be included later at the time of taking biometric samples.
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