Sarna Religion of Jharkhand

Recently Jharkhand government convened a special session and passed a resolution to send the Centre a letter to recognise Sarna religion and include it as a separate code in the Census of 2021.

  • Currently, the census classifies people under six religions - Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jain, and Buddhist - while those who do not subscribe to these are clubbed under the 'Other' category.
  • With the Centre dropping the "other" option for Census 2021, tribals will have to either leave the column or declare themselves as members of one of the six specified religions.

Sarna Religion

  • ‘Sarna’ followers are nature worshippers who ....
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