Instead, the idea will be buried quietly, finely camouflaged under technical verbiage, while the charade of the caste census carries on. And how does this seemingly trivial and super-technical decision sound the death knell of the exercise of the caste census? An intense parliamentary debate led by Sharad Yadav contributed to an all-party consensus in favour of carrying out a caste census. A separate nationwide survey called the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) was designed for this purpose. It also confirms that the RGI’s office is perfectly aware that this caste census is designed to fail.