Ranchi: The chorus for a hike in reservation in jobs and educational courses for Other Backward Castes (OBCs) and a caste-based census is growing louder in Jharkhand, days after the ruling Congress raked up the issue to press its own coalition government to initiate steps in this regard.
On Tuesday, Ajsu-P, a constituent of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a caste-based census in 2021, stressing that it was imperative to analyse the actual population. Such a census would make it easier to understand the current social condition of different sections of people based on their caste and creed in the country.