Hyderabad, April 30 -- Chairman of the Telangana Backward Classes Commission G Niranjan expressed concern over the omission of Backward Classes (BC) population data in the first phase of the census, which began on April 26.

In his letter to the District Census Operations (DCO) Director Bharati Hollikeri on Thursday, April 30, Niranjan stated that the omission of the BC column in the survey questionnaire has caused disappointment among the backward classes in the state.

He noted that the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Political Affairs of the Centre, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in its meeting held on April 30, 2025, had decided to collect caste-wise data of BCs in the 2027 Census.

"In the questionnaire of House Listing Operations...