New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to introduce a pre-loaded drop-down menu for OBC castes in the digital enumeration tools for Census 2027 instead of requiring individuals to manually enter their caste.
A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said the issue pertains to a policy decision.
We dispose of this petition while granting liberty to the petitioner to approach Registrar General and Census Commissioner to whom a copy of this petition may be sent as representation, the bench said.
The counsel appearing for the petitioner, OBC Federation of India, submitted that a drop-down menu may be added to the digital census that is being conducted.
The Registrar General of India (RGI) has decided to use an open-ended question on caste rather than a drop-down menu for the caste census to be conducted alongside the population enumeration phase of the Census.