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Economic data collected during caste survey to be tabled in Bihar assembly, says Nitish Kumar

The JD(U) leader, however, ducked queries as to whether the survey, which has shown OBCs and Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) to be nearly two-thirds of the population, would be followed by a rise in quotas to ensure proportionate representation

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. File Pic

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. File Pic

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said details collected as part of the caste survey, including the economic condition of households, will be tabled before the state assembly, reported news agency PTI.

He was responding to queries from journalists, on the sidelines of a function organised in Patna to mark the birth anniversary of legendary socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan, by whom he had been inspired, as an engineering student in the 1970s, to take the political plunge, reported PTI.

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