New Delhi, April 30 -- The Union Minister for Railways, and Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday announced that caste enumeration will be a part of the next National Census.

An ANI report quoted Vaishnaw as saying, "Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has decided today that Caste enumeration should be included in the forthcoming census." The minister, however, did not announce a date for beginning the census.

BJP party chief JP Nadda hailed the Centre's move, calling it a "historic decision to include caste-based census in the census. "This decision is extremely important from the point of view of bringing the economically, socially and educationally backward castes into the m...