Hyderabad: Minister Ponnam Prabhakar announced that the state’s caste census will commence next month, with an allocated budget of Rs. 150 crores for the initiative. The census process will be managed by the General Administration Department, Panchayat Raj, or Planning Departments. Prabhakar emphasized that the implementation of reservation for Backward Classes (BCs) will be finalized based on the census results. He also highlighted that the government plans to provide 42 percent reservation to BCs, with the distribution to be determined on a party-wise basis.