Greater than a 12 months after it was submitted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah by the Karnataka State Fee for Backward Courses, the report of the Socioeconomic and Schooling Survey—popularly known as a caste census—will probably be taken up by the cupboard on Friday.
In line with sources within the chief ministers’ workplace and the regulation division, the cupboard will focus on the survey report. “The report, because it was submitted, has remained in a sealed cowl. Although the federal government had wished to take it up earlier this 12 months, it was delayed attributable to varied causes,” a supply mentioned, referring to Siddaramaiah’s remarks that the report could be taken up by the cupboard in January.
The proposal to debate the survey report—which is opposed by dominant communities corresponding to Lingayats and Vokkaligas—comes towards the backdrop of the Congress’ renewed give attention to wooing the Different Backward Courses to nook the BJP. On the Congress Working Committee assembly held in Ahmedabad, Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have suggested the get together’s models to shift their focus to the OBCs as they’re estimated to represent greater than 50 per cent of the nationwide inhabitants.
The statewide survey, commissioned in 2015 by the earlier Congress authorities led by Siddaramaiah, was accomplished in 2017 earlier than being saved in chilly storage forward of the 2018 Meeting polls because the get together feared political repercussions. The succeeding governments—led by H D Kumaraswamy of the JD(S)-Congress coalition and B S Yediyurappa and later Basavaraj Bommai, each of the BJP—additionally selected to sit down over the report for the subsequent 5 years.
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