Welcoming its determination to enumerate castes within the upcoming Census, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday urged the BJP-led central authorities to survey the social, financial and academic standing of assorted communities and to undertake the state mannequin for the train.
“The Socioeconomic and Instructional Survey carried out by the Karnataka authorities is an entire mannequin and the state authorities is able to provide its experience to the Centre,” he stated in a press release.
A 50-volume report of the Socioeconomic and Instructional Survey carried out by the Karnataka State Backward Courses Fee was lately positioned earlier than the Cupboard however its findings have come below fireplace from the Opposition BJP and JD(S), together with influential communities reminiscent of Vokkaligas and Lingayats.
The survey didn’t simply enumerate numerous castes current within the state but in addition studied their social, financial and academic standing. “Based mostly on the information compiled, there are makes an attempt being made to revise the reservation restrict. In its Caste Census, I’m assured that the Central authorities will even take up this course of,” the Congress chief stated.
Taking a dig on the BJP for opposing the caste census until now, he stated the saffron celebration had argued that such an train would stir strife amongst numerous castes, alleging a conspiracy to divide the Hindu neighborhood within the nation.
After making such claims, it’s a welcome improvement that the BJP and governments led by the celebration have understood the social significance of caste enumeration, Siddaramaiah stated.
On the opposition to the Socioeconomic and Instructional Survey, the chief minister stated that although a report was prepared, the state BJP unit was opposing it with numerous excuses. Noting that Karnataka was making an attempt to revise the 50 per cent reservation restrict upwards, he requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to advise state BJP leaders in opposition to opposing the try.
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Although the survey was commissioned in Karnataka in 2015, it was positioned earlier than the cupboard within the second week of April this 12 months, nearly a decade later. Successive governments, together with the earlier Congress authorities below Siddaramaiah (2013-18), had baulked at tabling it within the state legislature fearing political repercussions.
Siddaramaiah, who commissioned the survey in his first time period, took two years after changing into chief minister for the second time in Might 2023 to desk the report within the cupboard. The nudge to take up the report is alleged to have come throughout the Congress nationwide conference lately held in Gujarat, the place the celebration determined to deal with Different Backward Courses.
The Karnataka survey’s findings have estimated that OBCs and spiritual minorities type round 70 per cent of the state inhabitants.
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