New Delhi:
Election strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor weighed in on the caste census issue today after Centre’s announcement that it would be included in the next census – saying that in itself is not a problem. Nor it is a promise that possession of data will immediately rectify social problems and bring equality.
There is no problem with any kind of census that gives better information about society, he said.
But “you will not become a scholar just by buying a book, you will have to read and understand the book,” he said. “The country will not improve just by doing the census. Improvement will happen only when the government works on the results of the census,” he added.
“In Bihar, the caste census report said that poor families would be given Rs 2 lakh for employment, but they have not received it till date,” he pointedly said, Bihar being the first state that gathered caste data under the Grand Alliance government.