Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar on Sunday stated that the federal government is not going to take any hasty resolution concerning the Socio-Financial and Schooling Survey report, popularly generally known as the ‘caste census’, that was just lately tabled earlier than the state cupboard.
He stated the cupboard will undergo the report and talk about it, and can do justice to all primarily based on the details, as he additionally known as the statements being made towards the report as “political”.
The Karnataka State Fee for Backward Lessons’ report was positioned earlier than the cupboard on Friday, and will probably be mentioned at a particular cupboard assembly scheduled on April 17.
The Fee, underneath its then Chairman Ok Jayaprakash Hegde, had submitted the report back to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on February 29 final 12 months, amid objections raised by sure sections of society and voices towards it from inside the ruling Congress.
“The CM has spoken about it. I’ve not but seen the report as I used to be visiting Belagavi and Mangaluru yesterday. It must be mentioned within the cupboard. Apparently, the CM has stated that will probably be mentioned within the Meeting too. Nobody will take any hasty resolution,” Shivakumar stated.
Chatting with reporters at Doddaballapur close to right here, he stated, “Some could also be making political statements about it (caste census), however we are going to perceive the details and do justice for all.” In the meantime, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge stated he isn’t aware of what’s within the report and therefore he wouldn’t wish to touch upon it.
“I don’t know, as a result of I’ve no details about what can be mentioned within the cupboard or what’s there within the report. If I get the report I can say one thing. Or if there’s any clear resolution from the April 17 cupboard assembly, I can react to it,” he informed reporters right here.
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In keeping with the survey report, out of a complete 5.98 crore residents coated underneath the survey that was carried out in 2015, about 70 per cent or 4.16 crore come underneath varied OBC classes, in line with official sources.
The Fee has beneficial mountaineering the OBC quota from the present 32 per cent to to 51 per cent, they stated.
By giving OBCs a 51 per cent reservation quota, together with the prevailing 17 per cent for SCs and seven per cent for STs, it can take the state’s complete reservation to 75 per cent.
As per the report, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (S/ST) collectively appear to type the most important social block within the state with their inhabitants at 1.52 crore, official sources stated.
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Although the caste-wise break-up of OBCs isn’t out there from the report but, Muslims, who alone come underneath Class-2B of OBC are with a inhabitants of 75.25 lakh, whereas the final class at 29.74 lakh, they stated.
Karnataka’s two dominant communities — Vokkaliags and Lingayats — have been expressing reservations in regards to the survey, calling it “unscientific”, and have demanded that or not it’s rejected and a contemporary survey be carried out.
The Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities (2013-2018) had in 2015 commissioned the survey within the state.
The State Backward Lessons Fee, underneath its then chairperson H Kantharaju, was tasked with getting ready a caste census report. The survey work was accomplished in 2018 in the direction of the top of Siddaramaiah’s first tenure as Chief Minister, and the report was finalised by his successor Ok Jayaprakash Hegde in February 2024.
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With robust disapproval from the 2 politically influential communities, the survey report could become a political sizzling potato for the federal government, as it could set the stage for a confrontation.
Earlier, Shivakumar, who can also be the state Congress president, and a Vokkaliga, was a signatory, together with a few different ministers, to a memorandum submitted by the group to the chief minister earlier, requesting that the report and the information be rejected.
All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha, the apex physique of Veerashaiva-Lingayats, which has additionally expressed its disapproval vis-a-vis the survey and demanded conduct of a contemporary survey, is headed by veteran Congress chief and MLA Shamanuru Shivashankarappa. A number of Lingayat ministers and MLAs too have raised objections.