Chennai, September 18: AICC President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has informed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi that caste enumeration would be conducted as a separate exercise from June next year.
In a letter to Mr Karunanidhi, copy of which was made available to media here today, Ms Gandhi said the caste enumeration exercise would be launched in June next year and completed in a phased manner by September, 2011.
Ms Gandhi was responding to Mr Karunanidhi’s letter dated August 14, regarding enumeration of castes in the ongoing census, 2011.
”I have been informed that the Union Cabinet has decided that the caste enumeration would be conducted as a separate exercise from the month of June, 2011, and completed in a phased manner by September, 2011,” she said.
–UNI