Karnataka’s cupboard on Thursday determined to conduct a contemporary socio-educational survey of assorted castes within the state and to not implement the suggestions of the earlier survey–popularly known as the caste census–carried out by the Karnataka State Fee for Backward Lessons.
The choice got here after the Congress excessive command met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar on Tuesday, after which the celebration management requested Siddaramaiah to go for a “re-enumeration” of the populations of the totally different castes within the state. The diktat from the excessive command got here when the chief minister was on the verge of getting his cupboard clear the suggestions of the survey report in a particular cupboard assembly held on Thursday.
Siddaramaiah, who introduced the choice at a information convention, referred to a provision beneath the Karnataka State Fee for Backward Lessons Act to defend the contemporary survey.
As per Part 11, Clause 1 of the Act, the findings of the Socio-economic and Schooling Survey carried out in 2015 can be invalid as 10 years had handed since then. “The State Authorities could at any time, and shall, on the expiration of ten years from the approaching into power of this Act and each succeeding interval of ten years thereafter, undertake revision of the lists with a view to excluding from such lists these courses who’ve ceased to be backward courses or for together with in such lists, new backward courses,” the clause reads.
“The supply could be very clear,” Siddaramaiah mentioned, including “…the cupboard, contemplating these clauses, has determined that because the fee carried out the survey 10 years in the past, we are going to ask the fee to go for a contemporary survey.”
Responding to queries, the chief minister mentioned the modalities of the train can be introduced quickly however the survey can be accomplished in a 90-day timeframe.
The suggestions of the survey report–resembling shifting Kurubas from Class 2A (Different Backward Lessons) to Class 1 (Backward Castes), enhancing reservation for Muslims beneath the 2B class from 4 to eight per cent, enhancing reservation for the 3A and 3B classes, which embrace the dominant Vokkaliga and Lingayat communities, from present 4 and 5 per cent to seven and eight per cent, respectively–will now be scrapped.
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The re-survey is taken into account a setback for the chief minister, who had together with senior ministers resembling Satish Jarkiholi and H C Mahadevappa pushed for the implementation of the survey. On the identical time, the dominant Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities and their leaders had solid apprehensions on the survey and publicly opposed its findings.
Sources say that Shivakumar had opposed the report within the cupboard assembly held on June 5 and flew to Delhi earlier this week in search of the intervention of the excessive command.
“Each Vokkaligas and Lingayats teaming up because of the report wouldn’t augur nicely for the celebration within the subsequent elections,” an aide near Shivakumar mentioned, claiming it to be the explanation for the Vokkaliga chief to foyer towards the report.
Other than that, distinguished Lingayat leaders too are learnt to have complained to the Congress excessive command in regards to the “issues” the report would create if its suggestions had been to be carried out.
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Siddaramaiah commissioned the survey in 2015 throughout his first tenure as chief minister and it was accepted by the state cupboard in April this yr.Karnataka caste re-survey, Karnataka caste census, re-enumeration of castes, Siddaramaiah, Vokkaliga, Lingayat, D Ok Shivakumar