Hyderabad, May 2 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday said that once the central government undertakes the caste census, along with population census, it will prevail over the caste surveys conducted by Telangana and other states.

"Hitherto, there was no scientific data of the other backward classes in the state. So, our government undertook a massive exercise of conducting social, economic, education, employment and political caste surveys. Now that the Centre has decided to conduct the caste census along with the general census, it will become final," Revanth told reporters at a press conference.

Telangana Backward Classes Commission chairman G Niranjan said once the Centre conducts the caste census, it would make t...