Govt to set up panel for caste classification

NEW DELHI: The government will soon set up an expert panel, led by Niti Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya, to start allotting a number to each caste in the country.

NEW DELHI: The government will soon set up an expert panel, led by Niti Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya, to start allotting a number to each caste in the country. The cabinet had announced its decision to set up the panel in July last year. The panel is crucial to making sense of the 4.6 million names of castes, sub-castes and surnames thrown up by the first caste census in Independent India through 2010-11. A senior government official told HT that the formalities to set up the panel would be completed soon.

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