{"id":7160,"date":"2008-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/25\/caste-wide-census-in-india-might-happen-in-2011\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T12:00:00","slug":"caste-wide-census-in-india-might-happen-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/25\/caste-wide-census-in-india-might-happen-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Caste-wide Census in India Might Happen in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/002200810210331.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 21, 2008: Various political parties on Monday asked for nation-wide caste census in 2011, saying such a move would bring clarity on the issue of protecting the &#8220;backward castes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Supreme Court observed that without comprehensive and scientific data regarding different sections of the population the Government cannot bring statutory amendments for reservation in jobs and education. &#8220;If the caste-wise census is undertaken, the data will help us to form an idea about the level of development, handicap, poverty level of different castes,&#8221; a politician, S. Ramadoss, said. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 21, 2008: Various political parties on Monday asked for nation-wide caste census in 2011, saying,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}