The Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha’s dense forest cover and innumerable water inlets spread across 353 square kilometer area is home to 659 Indian Bison, a schedule-1 animal protected under Wildlife Protection Act, according to the maiden census of these animals.
The Congress on Monday posed questions to the BJP-led government at the Centre over the long-awaited Census, demanding that the ruling dispensation call an all-party meeting to clarify the issues related to it.
According to the latest summer census conducted on June 20-21, 2024, this year's count revealed the presence of a total of 19,918 Sarus cranes, marking an increase of 396 from the previous year, state forest department officials said on Wednesday.
The results of a state-level survey, India's first caste-based count since a 1931 census, were made public by Bihar
Taking into account the average population size of 20.78 % living in urban areas, the total OBC population at that time may have been more than 50% of the total population of Uttar Pradesh at 16.61 crore in the 2001 census.
J&K has 20 districts, 10 each in Jammu & Kashmir valley where the demand for creation of more districts has been surfacing from different places.
It sounds legitimate that a caste census would bring to the fore the numbers of individuals who are on the fringes — which should be of much use in democratic policy making. It has been argued that a Socio-Economic caste census would be the most effective method to justify reservation based on evidence. In absence of such enumeration, there is no proper estimate for the OBC population as also various groups within the OBCs.
Shakiluzzaman Ansari, president of the body said, "the Prime Minister himself calls that he is from the OBC community and he knows the problems of the community as well. We hope that Prime Minister will accept the demand of the community."
Apart from supposedly boosting his image as the leader of the backward community, the findings of the census could also propel him to the chief minister’s post in the event the Congress comes to power in 2023, by pipping his arch rival, state Congress president, D K Shivakumar, a Vokkaliga, to the post.
Siddaramaiah, who met former ministers H.C. Mahadevappa on Friday demanded that the caste census of the state must be made public.
