Hyderabad:
Telangana will grow to be the second Congress-ruled state after Karnataka to undertake caste census – an train that might proceed from November 6 to November 30. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has additionally ordered the structure of a Backwards Castes fee following the orders of the High Court, which wished the brand new fee to make sure quota for them within the native our bodies’ polls.
On November 5, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi shall be in Telangana to attend a programme on caste census. Mr Gandhi is predicted to satisfy associations, pupil organisations and intellectuals to take their views on the matter.
The earlier panel of backwards castes was primarily based on a 1993 legislation and had mandate solely to assemble information on training and employment quota. This time, the census will collect socioeconomic profile of all castes, sources stated.
Sources stated 48,000 academics shall be deployed for the survey, for which main faculties will work solely half-day this month.
They will go from house-to-house and conduct survey to gather information. This will embody social, training, employment, financial, and political information. The authorities workers will place stickers on doorways. There shall be 85,000 enumerators and observers.
Caste census was one of many key election associated guarantees made by the Congress.
At the time, Mr Reddy, who was main the Congress marketing campaign, had stated in an open letter that solely a caste census would guarantee justice for the backward courses.