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Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar said that the exercise is not caste census, instead its a caste survey. [38] [39] [40] On 4 May 2023, Patna High Court stayed the caste-based survey in its interim order, and directed the state government to keep the survey data, collected so far preserved till the next date of hearing (July 3, 2023).
Bhumi Sena (transl. Land Army) was a private army which operated in the Patna, Nalanda, Jehanabad, and Gaya districts of Bihar, India in the 1980s, made up of members of the AWADHIYA caste. [1] [2] [3] [4]
This article has the list of Schedule Castes in Bihar. List. The table has 22 castes designated as Schedule Caste in Bihar as of their population as per 2011 Census. [1]
Dalits in Bihar are a social group composed of many Scheduled Castes, placed at the bottom of the "caste-based social order". The Dalits also include some of the erstwhile untouchable castes, who suffered various forms of oppression in the feudal - agrarian society of Bihar.
Bihar has experienced strong growth in per capita net state domestic product (NSDP). At current prices, per capita NSDP of the state grew at a CAGR of 12.91% from 2004 to 2005 to 2014–15. [133] Bihar's per capita income went up by 40.6% in FY 2014–15. [134] The state's debt was estimated at 77% of GDP by 2007. [135]
Districts of Bihar. Bihar, a state of India, currently has 38 administrative districts, 101 subdivisions (अनुमंडल) and 535 CD blocks.. A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a district magistrate or a deputy commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service.
The party though headed in Bihar by a lower-backward caste leader Karpoori Thakur, consolidated the upper-backward castes. The latter were conspicuous to share power within the Party with the upper-caste, and the social structure of the Lok Dal even provided the Lohiaite upper-caste leaders to play a second fiddle within the party.
Siwan district of Bihar, India comprises only one sub-division, Siwan, which is divided into 19 Blocks and has a total of 1,530 villages. There are 95 uninhabited villages (out of 1,530 total villages) in the district of Siwan.