A simple but powerful case can be made that here is a comprehensive census which shows that the Indian farmer is entrenched in deep poverty
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman thinks about the next generation, said 19th century American author James Freeman Clarke. Reactions to the recently released Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) only reaffirms this.
Earlier this month, the government partially released the findings of the SECC, the first of its kind since the British conducted a similar survey in 1932. The exercise was commissioned by the previous United Progressive Alliance government to address the political controversy which erupted after the implementation of reservations.
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