Hyderabad:
Caste discrimination in India is “distinctive” — in all probability amongst worst in world — and the Congress will demolish the “synthetic barrier” of fifty per cent reservations, the get together’s senior chief Rahul Gandhi mentioned at present. Mr Gandhi is in Telangana, which is becoming the second Congress-ruled state after Karnataka to undertake a caste census.
The caste survey will likely be taken up by the state authorities from November 6 and it’ll proceed until the tip of the month.
Mr Gandhi, together with get together chief Mallikarjun Kharge, was attending a gathering organised by the state Congress, the place he interacted with social teams, caste associations and state leaders and different stakeholders.
The Congress is resolved to conduct caste survey together with financial mapping to disclose who’re the India’s poor and what number of inhabitants they comprise. This, the get together maintains, will assist to dispose of the 50 per cent cap on reservations.
In a Hindi put up on X earlier this yr, Mr Gandhi had mentioned the steps would “X-Ray” the nation and supply appropriate reservations, rights and share to everybody, Mr. Gandhi mentioned.
The earlier panel of backwards castes was based mostly on a 1993 regulation and had mandate solely to assemble knowledge on schooling and employment quota. This time, the Telangana census will collect socioeconomic profile of all castes, sources had mentioned.
48,000 academics are anticipated to be deployed for the survey, for which main faculties will work solely half-day this month.
They’ll go from house-to-house and conduct survey to gather knowledge. This may embody social, schooling, employment, financial, and political knowledge. The federal government employees will place stickers on doorways. There will likely be 85,000 enumerators.