The Karnataka Authorities has launched a survey of Scheduled Caste (SC) communities to enumerate the sub-castes inside every mum or dad group. The train is being carried out based mostly on the suggestions of an interim report by the Justice Nagamohan Das Fee which was shaped to submit a report on inside reservation for SCs within the state.
The survey will likely be carried out in three phases: the primary section will likely be from Could 5 to 17, throughout which door-to-door surveys will likely be executed to gather empirical knowledge, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah informed a information convention on Monday. The second section may have particular camps for individuals who haven’t been enumerated within the first section, and it is going to be held from Could 19 to 21. The federal government can even open an internet mode within the third section of the survey from Could 19 to 23, underneath which members of SC communities can self-declare their sub-castes and reply to different queries within the survey questionnaire.
The handbook on ‘Complete Survey of Scheduled Castes – 2025’ says that it’s going to gather knowledge on the variety of members of an SC household, academic particulars together with causes for discontinuing research, employment particulars, annual revenue, advantages derived from reservation coverage within the schooling sector, belongings owned by the household surveyed, supply of ingesting water, and nature of dwelling space amongst others. These particulars will likely be compiled underneath the 101 sub-castes listed within the SC class.
“After getting actual knowledge, we have now requested the Fee to submit particulars in 60 days. Suggestions (on inside reservation) will likely be made after that,” Siddaramaiah stated. Throughout the state, 65,000 lecturers appointed by the deputy commissioners of respective districts will function enumerators.
The survey was required because the state authorities didn’t have actual particulars on the inhabitants of Adi Dravida, Adi Karnataka and Adi Andhra communities, which was essential to offer inside reservation. The continuing survey will make sure that members of those communities are enumerated correctly underneath the right SC sub-categories, he stated.
The one-man Fee was shaped in November final yr, following a Supreme Court docket choice which empowered states to offer inside reservation for SC communities. States resembling Telangana and Haryana have introduced quotas inside the SC class because the choice. After the Fee was arrange, the federal government additionally determined to withhold issuing a recent notification for presidency jobs from the Karnataka Public Service Fee till the problem of inside reservation for SC communities was settled.
The SC group, numbering round 1.3 crore in Karnataka, is classed underneath 4 heads: SC Left, consisting of probably the most backward communities; SC Proper, who’re much less backward; communities resembling Banjaras and Bhovis; and different minor communities. In direction of the top of its tenure, the earlier BJP authorities had in March 2023 introduced inside reservation for SC communities which was not applied. Beneath the scrapped coverage, the SC Left group was given 6 per cent of the 17 per cent reservation quota for SCs, whereas SC Proper obtained 5.5 per cent, communities resembling Banjaras and Bhovis obtained 4.5 per cent and different SC teams obtained 1 per cent. The announcement again then was met with violent protests in elements of the state.
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