Hyderabad, March 4 -- The Telangana Backwards Classes (BC) Commission has written to the state Chief Secretary Rama Krishna Rao requesting to initiate action to include the list 40 BC caste communities that in the Central Other Backward Classes (OBC) list before the central government begins population enumeration for the nationwide Census programme.

The letter from the BC Commission comes just days after the state government announced that Telangana will begin the first phase of Census 2027 operations from May 11. House Listing Operations (HLO) running across the state will be held from May 11 to June 9. This will not only be India's first-ever fully digital Census and but for the first time include caste enumeration also.

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