Yogendra Yadav

Earlier it was in jobs only.

So, Satish Deshpande, who is a sociologist earlier with Delhi School of Economics and Yogendra Yadav had come up with this deprivation points method, which factored in different kinds of deprivation, like regional deprivation.

Now, suppose someone... studying in Delhi has a head start so someone studying in a remote village in say Chhattisgarh or Jharkhand so some points can be given to it irrespective of caste so they are trying to account for the complexity of but the question is that caste would still remain the dominant lubricant of inequalities

you know what the point that Anand said is that the meritocracy doesn't take into account the access you have to schools there was this fantastic it wasn't a speech it was just a bite but she was speaking with such confidence and clarity this girl from the dalit community said that you talk about merit come and study in the school i went to and then compete with me and i'll show you merit or let me get access to the school you went to and then compete with me then i'll show you merit i think it really put in perspective that Where you have studied, come from, etc.

Surprisingly, nobody in the government or the BJP was shouting from the rooftops, telling the world about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to social justice.

Two days before the RGI notified the questions, academic turned politician Yogendra Yadav had lambasted the government in an article in The Indian Express titled, "Caste Census Is Dead.

Don't Expect a Formal Announcement or Funeral." Yogendra Yadav's objection was to reports that it would be an open-ended question on caste, SC, ST, caste, rather than a dropdown menu of castes.

He would rather have the enumerator ask the respondent his or her caste category, that is SC, ST, OBC, General, and then choose from the menu of caste names in that category.

For instance, a person could first indicate his category as, say, OBC, and then in the dropdown menu, choose to identify himself or herself as, say, uh, Yadav or Ahir or Guwala.

The result was that the exercise threw up forty-six point seven lakh caste, subcaste, and clan names, making their classification practically impossible.

The SECC, uh, data was therefore never published.

With the current caste census also keeping the question open-ended, as in the SECC, Yogendra Yadav predicted its funeral.