Hyderabad, Aug. 20 -- DMK Rajya Sabha member and senior advocate P. Wilson and former DGP and AIBSP National Coordinator J Purnachandra Rao on Thursday urged the union government to assign unique codes to every OBC community and prepare a standardised caste directory before undertaking caste enumeration as part of the Census.
Addressing a press conference at the Press Club, Basheerbagh, they cautioned that allowing caste names to be entered as free text could result in the same community being recorded under different spellings, sub-castes and regional names, affecting the accuracy of population data.
They suggested adopting a system similar to that used for SCs and STs, with State-wise predefined drop-down lists and unique caste codes ba...