How significant is the TVK-led regime’s move to hold Social Justice Survey? | Explained

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A proposed Social Justice Survey in India would allow respondents to state their caste in an open column during the second phase of the national Census, planned for February next year. The proposal has prompted political parties and other stakeholders to question the exercise’s purpose and usefulness.

The feature of an ‘open column’, where respondents can state their caste during the second phase of the Census, to be carried out in most parts of the country during February next year, has forced many parties and other stakeholders to express concerns over the utility of the whole exercise