As of now, even the Government of India does not have a clue about the proportion of the OBCs in the population. The data being used is from the 1931 Census. According to that census, the OBCs formed around 52 per cent of the country’s population. The fact that the OBCs were never counted for almost a century shows how issues related to the majority of the population have been put on the back burner by those in power.
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