What is India's long-awaited caste census?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Supporters of the caste census stress the need for more precise data on those deserving of government assistance while critics say caste has no place in a country with ambitions of becoming a world power.
48% : Federal and state governments provide a certain number of spaces to members of the historically marginalised lower castes in colleges, government jobs and legislative bodies, including the parliament.
38% : More than two-thirds of country's 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades Hindus by birth The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications.

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