The Bengaluru police have booked a girl for allegedly insulting and obstructing Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officers throughout a door-to-door go to at an residence to gather information for a survey of sub castes amongst Scheduled Castes (SCs) on June 23.
The alleged incident occurred at an residence inside the HSR Format police station limits between 1.15 pm and 1.45 pm. The police booked Pavithra Okay, a resident of a fourth-floor residence in Sector 6 of the HSR Format, based mostly on the grievance of Ramya S, BBMP’s Bommanahalli Zone Commissioner.
When the BBMP group, together with income inspectors and tax collectors, visited flat quantity 402 in one of many residences, Pavithra allegedly shouted at them.
“The obstruction brought about to the survey in a single residence resulted in an obstruction to the survey within the different residences on the identical flooring,” mentioned the BBMP official’s police grievance.
Following the incident, the BBMP officers had been compelled to name the house owners of the opposite residences within the constructing and direct them to ask their tenants to cooperate within the caste survey. The survey was finally carried out the subsequent day, on June 24, says the grievance, which sought motion towards the girl for “utilizing abusive language and obstructing the caste survey work on the homes within the constructing”.
The Karnataka authorities started a survey on Might 5 to find out the variety of folks within the 101 sub-castes throughout the SCs in Karnataka. The completion of the survey has been delayed by over a month because of alleged issues in gathering information in city areas, reminiscent of Bengaluru, particularly at residence blocks.
The survey of sub-castes among the many SCs is an train undertaken by the Congress authorities within the state as a precursor to fulfilling its promise to supply inner reservations for socially weaker sub-castes throughout the 15 per cent SC quota within the state.
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Whereas the survey was initially scheduled to be carried out from Might 5 to 17, it has seen a number of extensions because of delays in gathering information. The survey was initiated based mostly on the suggestions of an interim report on inner reservations for SCs, which was submitted to the state authorities on March 27 by the one-man fee of Justice Nagamohan Das.
The fee advisable a contemporary survey of the SCs in Karnataka to develop a scientific classification of SC sub-castes, following respondents’ obscure SC identifications throughout the 2011 Census.
Almost 43 per cent of respondents had beforehand designated themselves as belonging to the broad classes of Adi Dravida, Adi Karnataka, and Adi Andhra – with out specifying which of the 101 SC subcastes, reminiscent of Madigas, Holeyas, and others, they belonged to.