Hyderabad, Aug. 16 -- Telangana BC Welfare and Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Sunday demanded that the Centre immediately include OBC/BC population details in the nationwide caste census, alleging that the exclusion of OBCs from the recently released questionnaire was a serious injustice to Backward Classes.
Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, Ponnam Prabhakar said the Centre had initially indicated that detailed category-wise information on BCs would be collected in the second phase of the census. However, he said the 40-question questionnaire released on August 15 contains references to SCs, STs and "others" but makes no mention of OBCs.
The Minister said authentic caste-wise population data was essential to ensure p...