LoP Devendra Fadnavis misled the House on SECC data

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Mumbai: Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister, Prithviraj Chavan has accused leader of the opposition Devendra Fadnavis for deliberately misleading the legislative assembly even after the Union Home Ministry and Registrar General of Census Comissioner in their report informed that after analysis there is no discrepancy in 98.87 per cent SECC Census.

Fadnavis in his statement made on the floor of the House on July 5, 2021 said that in the 2011 SECC Census there were a total of 8 crore errors and from Maharashtra alone there are 69 lakh mistakes.

The Maharashtra Government has passed a resolution in the state legislature that to keep the political reservation of the OBC intact the Union Government should provide SECC data to the state government. At that point in time, Fadnavis made a wrong statement and deliberately misled the House and people of the state, Chavan said.

In order to reaffirm his claim, Chavan has referred to the 27th Parliamentary Standing Committee report of the Union Rural Development Ministry.

He said, in 2010 the UPA government decided to undertake the caste-based census and economic census (SECC). The work began on June 29, 2011.

The work was entrusted to the Registrar General of India under the Union Home Ministry, Rural Development Ministry and Union Urban Development Ministry. The Census work got completed in 2016.

As per the information on the page 10 of the report:-the Union Home Ministry and Registrar General of Census Commissioner in their report informed that after analysis there is no discrepancy in 98.87 per cent SECC Census.

The report further says that the total population registered in SECC is 118, 64,03,770. Out of which, there are some errors in 1,34,77,030 of them. Likewise, for the whole of country, this figure is only 1.13 per cent.

In order to rectify these flaws, Claims and Objections Tracking System (COTS) is being implemented in various states. With the help of COTS system in Uttar Pradesh 2,09,182 and in Rajasthan 45,550 mistakes were rectified.