The Other Backward Class (OBC) community of the Palghar district has warned of boycotting the Census if the administration fails to collect data based on caste-related information, and threatened a protest. They have planned an agitation at the district collector’s office on April 29, to demand a caste-based census.

Rajeev Patil, former mayor of the Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC), said, “We want assurance from the administration that while conducting the census there would be a column in the data collection form asking for the caste of the citizen. This will help identify the accurate number of OBC and other community members residing in the region.”