Hyderabad, May 1 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha on Thursday 'heartily' welcomed the central government's decision to include a caste-based census in the upcoming census. She also urged Central government to carry out the caste census in a transparent manner using latest technology.

"We welcome the Centre's move to conduct caste census across the country. This has been a long-standing demand. In 2011, the then Congress government attempted to conduct a caste census, but for unknown reasons, the data was withheld. I am happy the central government has announced it. This is because our country has a census for everything, from tigers and sheep, but did not have one for people. Now that they have announced it, it is good," BRS...