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Spiritual leader Acharya Prashant supports the idea of a caste census if used to identify marginalized communities for better policy making. He warns against its use for negative purposes like cementing caste identification or for electoral gains. He emphasizes that the intention behind the data collection is crucial, as data itself is neutral. The Union government has announced that caste will be included in the forthcoming census, causing some apprehension about its potential misuse.

Courtesy: theprint.in

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