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On 20 January 2023, the Supreme Court of India refused to entertain various pleas challenging Bihar Government's notification to conduct caste-based census in Bihar. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The pleas against caste-based survey were filed by many petitioners, including Youth For Equality group. [ 37 ]
As per Bihar government’s Bihar caste-based survey 2022 report, released on 2 October 2023, showed that extremely backward classes (EBCs) account for 36.01 percent of the 13.07 crore population of the state. [10] [11] OBCs, EBCs together account for 63% of total population of Bihar. [12] [13]
The main beneficiaries are the EBCs and OBCs, whose quota is proposed to be raised from 12% to 25% and 8% to 18% respectively. According to 2022 Bihar caste-based survey, 36.01% of the population are EBCs, and 27.13% are OBCs.For SCs, the proposed new quota is 20%, up from the existing 14%. The SC population is estimated at 19.65%.
Almost 58% of Bihar's population was below 25 years age, which is the highest in India. In 2021, Bihar has had an urbanisation rate of 20%. [16] [86] Bihar has an adult literacy rate of 68.15% (78.5% for males and 57.8% for females) in 2020. [85] Population increased to 130,725,310 as per the Bihar caste survey conducted in 2023. [84]
The table has 22 castes designated as Schedule Caste in Bihar as of their population as per 2011 Census. [1] Caste Population %age of total SC population Bantar ...
Kewats are recognised as Scheduled Caste in the states of Assam, West Bengal and Tripura as Keot, Keyot or Jalkeot. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] With a population of 937,861, Kewats constitute 0.7174% of Bihar 's population in the 2023 caste census .
There exists a category among the Schedule Castes called Mahadalit, which was created by the Nitish Kumar government to identify more socio-economic backward groups among the Schedule Castes. In October 2023, Government of Bihar released the report of Bihar caste-based survey 2022, it conducted in the same year. This was first caste census to ...
The population enumeration follows the housing census within a gap of six to eight months. During the second phase of census taking, each person is enumerated and her/his individual particulars like age, marital status, religion, schedule caste/schedule tribe, mother tongue, education level, disability, economic activity, migration, fertility (for female) are collected.