-Newslaundry.com Out of 121 leadership positions surveyed in newsrooms, none are held by those belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Three out of every four anchors of flagship debates are upper Caste. Not one is Dalit, Adivasi, or OBC. Only 10 of the 972 articles featuring on the cover pages of the 12 magazines are about issues related to Caste. No more than 5 per cent of all articles in English...
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Census 2021 may skip Caste count -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu A large number of Caste names are difficult to tabulate, says official. New Delhi: Census 2021 is unlikely to collect “Caste wise” data as a similar exercise conducted in 2011 by another ministry threw up about 40 lakh Caste names that were difficult to tabulate, a senior government official said on Friday. The decennial exercise would involve 31 lakh trained enumerators, with data collected digitally using Android based mobile phones. The Census...
More »In a first, census to seek info on your phones, bank a/cs -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Census 2021 will for the first time seek information from households on smartphones, DTH/Cable TV connection, internet access, number of members of households having bank accounts, ownership of house other than the rented accommodation of a household, bottled water availability and mobile number as part of the houselisting procedure. Importantly, the latest census, as per the existing plan, will not collect Caste data. While the socio-economic...
More »2,400 students dropped out of IITs in 2 years, nearly half were SC, ST, OBC -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in Most of the dropouts occurred in the older IITs — Delhi tops the list, followed by Kharagpur, Bombay, Kanpur and Madras. New Delhi: Over 2,400 students have dropped out from the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the last two years, with over half of them belonging to the general category. These dropouts are both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. According to data shared by the Ministry of Human Resource...
More »Five-year Yoga Day bill: Rs 114 crore -Vishal Narayan
-The Telegraph Allocation in some years was higher than the national commissions for SCs, STs, safai karmacharis and denotified tribes New Delhi: The ministry of AYUSH has spent Rs 114 crore celebrating the International Day of Yoga between 2015 and 2020, an RTI reply has revealed. In its reply, the ministry informed this website that it spent Rs 16.39 crore in 2015, Rs 18.03 crore in 2016, Rs 26.42 crore in 2017,...
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