And.my answer would be ........'none'

Cabinet approved for the cast based senses next year. Worst part is both congress and BJP are happy about it. So no opposition for this one.

Well, the results of the census would be interesting. Now we can actually fight among over selves and feel conceit about caste based on population too. That's going to make the dream of caste -less society a daydream for some more decades.

Now the political parties will have statistical data on number of people belong to a particular caste in a constituency . So they will ticket to a candidate from the majority caste. Not that its not happening now, but political parties will have the actual data with them once senses is over.

But one good thing about this census is ...we are going to have an option "no caste". So now we get to see how many Indians wants a caste-less society.

But why this caste based census? That too after so many decades? Lets say its becoz of the reservations govt offer people???

Since so-called 'golden age' of India, the khastriayas used to rule the kingdom so they have got money. The vyshyas used to take care of the business and they got money. And brahmins by flattering the kings or terrorizing the people in the religion and vedas got it. The last strata does not have power and did not have any money. So lower caste is equated to lower economy class. But is this true in the modern times?

Now economic status of a family is not so much based on the caste of the family. There are many brahmin families which are poor, same with khsatriyas and vyshyas...and there are many rich people from the lower caste!!

When supreme court gave its verdict about creamy layer in OBC reservation case.....another question raised... Should govt provide reservations based on caste or based on economic class?

Why should son of a MLA who belongs to OBC class should get the govt scholarship and why should not a son of a poor brahmin should get it?

Why still we equate lower castes with lower income class? cant we provide reservations based on economy of the family only? Just like now we have but instead of caste ...If your family income is up-to a level you will get certain % of reservation if it exceeds you will get different % of reservation. Is it hard to achieve? Anyway even in the present system students has to provide their caste certificate and income certificate to get the scholarship....if it changed then they had to provide only the income certificate.

Anyways if the caste census really happens then sociologists and anthropologists will have a lot to study about Indian population.