Overview
- A Haryana Congress delegation led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda met the state governor and submitted a memorandum calling for technical changes to the current caste enumeration process.
- The party says the ongoing census lacks a dedicated caste column and a clear counting mechanism, which risks leaving caste data inconsistent and unusable.
- Haryana Congress demands a separate OBC category, a scientifically validated unique code for each caste, state‑wise master lists to map synonyms and regional variants, and searchable digital tools for enumerators.
- The memorandum asks the government to form a multidisciplinary expert group and study Telangana’s SEEEP caste survey so the census method can be vetted by sociologists, statisticians and census specialists.
- The party warns verbatim recording without standardisation could split single communities across multiple entries, undermining affirmative action planning and representation, and says no formal response from central census authorities has been reported.