NEW DELHI:
Dismissing suggestions that caste census report was not released to “hide truth”, Government today said more than 8.19 crore errors were detected in the data of which 1.45 crore faults continue to exist.
A total of 8,19,58,314 errors have been found in caste particulars and all states and union territories have been communicated for rectification.
The states have rectified 6,73,81,119 errors. However, 1,45,77,195 errors are yet to be rectified, a Home Ministry statement said today.
Maharashtra with 69.1 lakh errors in the census data tops the list of states where the faults were detected.
Currently, there are 13.9 lakh errors in census data in Madhya Pradesh, 11.6 lakh errors in West Bengal, 7.2 lakhs in Rajasthan, 5.4 lakhs in Uttar Pradesh, 2.9 lakhs in Karnataka, 1.7 lakhs in Bihar, 1.4 lakhs in Tamil Nadu which are yet to be rectified.
On July 3, the Government refrained from releasing the caste-based data in its first Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) released in eight decades.
Union Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh had said brushed aside suggestions that Government avoided giving the caste count in the survey report due to political reasons ahead of Bihar polls. “There is no such thing. Connecting it with elections is not good,” he had said. (AGENCIES)
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