Bihar caste survey results out: Nitish Kumar shares next step

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that results of the caste survey conducted in the state will be discussed with all the nine parties who were in favour of the exercise. After the result of the survey were announced on Monday, Kumar said that all the nine parties will meet on Tuesday to discuss the way forward. He added that the results not only reveal caste data but also the financial condition of the families. He said action will be taken for the development and upliftment of all sections of Bihar based on the data. According to the data released by Development Commissioner Vivek Singh, the state’s total population stood at a little over 13.07 crore, out of which the Extremely Backward Classes (36 per cent) were the largest social segment followed by the Other Backward Classes at 27.13 per cent. The survey also stated that Yadavs, the OBC group to which Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav belongs, were the largest in terms of the population, accounting for 14.27 per cent of the total. Dalits, also known as the Scheduled Castes, accounted for 19.65 per cent of the total population in the state, which is also home to nearly 22 lakh (1.68 per cent) people belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. Those belonging to the “unreserved” category, which denotes the proverbial “upper castes” who dominated politics till the Mandal wave of the 1990s comprise 15.52 per cent of the total population. Also Watch: Bihar caste survey: Data reveals who collect garbage, clean our drains, says Tejashwi Yadav