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'Revealed economic situation of everyone': Nitish Kumar on Bihar caste census data

DNA Monday, 2 October 2023
According to the data, Scheduled Castes make up 19.65 per cent and the Scheduled Tribes 1.68 per cent of the population of the state.
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The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has released findings of its much-awaited caste survey which revealed that OBCs and EBCs constitute a whopping 63% of the state’s total population. With this Bihar has become the first state to release data from the caste-based survey. The report indicates that...

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