OVER a yr after it was submitted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in February 2024, the Karnataka Cupboard Friday accepted the Socio-Financial and Academic Survey report, popularly known as caste survey.
The 50-volume report, submitted by the Karnataka State Fee for Backward Lessons in February 2024, is scheduled to be mentioned at a Particular Cupboard assembly on April 17.
Briefing the media on the report, Backward Lessons Welfare Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi stated the survey assessed 54 parameters on the social and academic standing of Karnataka households. “Of the 6.35 crore inhabitants within the state, 5.98 crore folks from 1.35 crore households have been surveyed,” he stated, making it 94.17% of the inhabitants. Round 37 lakh households, or 5.83% of the entire inhabitants, weren’t surveyed.
The survey was by the way commissioned throughout Siddaramaiah’s first tenure as CM, from 2013 to 2018. The backward lessons fee, beneath its former chairman H Kantharaj, had performed the door-to-door survey from April 11 to Could 30, 2015.
The 2 sealed bins containing the report have been opened in the course of the Cupboard assembly Friday.
A quantity on the survey and its key findings, a quantity on caste-wise inhabitants, a quantity on traits of castes besides Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), two volumes on traits of SC and ST communities, volumes on Meeting seat-wise, district-wise and taluka-wise caste knowledge have been among the many 50 volumes positioned earlier than the Cupboard. “Some findings of the volumes have been mentioned, following which a Particular Cupboard assembly was convened for April 17 to deliberate on all the main points of the survey,” Tangadagi stated.
In keeping with Tangadagi, a complete of 1.6 lakh officers and different employees have been deployed for the state-wide survey. The info compiled by authorities officers was digitised at district centres by the government-run Bharat Electronics Restricted (BEL) at a price of Rs 43.09 crore. For the survey, Rs 7 crore was obtained from the Centre, whereas the state put aside Rs 185.79 crore. The full value of the survey was Rs 165.51 crore, the minister stated, including that the information was validated by the Indian Institute of Administration-Bangalore.
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Legislation and Parliamentary Affairs minister H Ok Patil stated the report didn’t discover any opposition when it was submitted to the state Cupboard. “We are going to focus on it once more on April 17 and see if any modifications are required,” he stated, including the survey knowledge can be made public within the coming days.
Quickly after the Congress got here to energy in March 2023, Siddaramaiah had moved to simply accept the report and implement its suggestions. However this was met with opposition from leaders of dominant Vokkaliga and Lingayat communities, together with Deputy CM D Ok Shivakumar (a Vokkaliga), who had referred to as its findings “unscientific”. Leaders from the SC, ST and Different Backward Class (OBC) teams had demanded that the CM settle for the report, which is anticipated to place their numbers at considerably greater than presently estimated.
Even throughout Siddaramaiah’s first time period as CM, the tabling of the report had been delay with the Congress fearing its repercussions in the course of the 2018 Meeting polls. Subsequent governments additionally didn’t take up the report as a result of considerations that it could upset dominant communities of the state.
A model of the report, which received “leaked” in 2018, indicated that the Lingayats and Vokkaligas constituted solely 9.8% and eight.2% of Karnataka’s inhabitants, as a substitute of the 17% and 15% that’s normally assumed.
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In February, after the Congress authorities in Telangana had tabled an announcement by itself caste survey within the state Meeting, Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi had hailed the transfer and used it to name for a nation-wide caste census. Highlighting the survey had discovered that “90% of Telangana’s inhabitants belonged to Dalit, Adivasi, Backward Class and minority communities”, Gandhi had stated, “As soon as the caste census is positioned in Parliament, we’ll know precisely how a lot of the nation’s wealth, energy, and establishments are owned by this 90% inhabitants of the nation.”