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A fig of enumerators appointed for the Social and Educational Survey person been accused of completing the process without collecting information from each subordinate of a family. A fewer allegedly made incorrect entries, pursuing which, the household members complained against them to elder officials successful Shivamogga.
As portion of the process acceptable by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, an enumerator has to cod the Aadhar paper oregon ration paper of each member, earlier entering the details and making the submission. However, determination were instances wherever the enumerators allegedly completed the process of information postulation from a household of 4 to 5 radical wrong a span of 10 to 15 minutes by collecting accusation from lone 1 subordinate of the family.
Every idiosyncratic consenting to instrumentality portion successful the census has to reply 40 questions. Besides, determination are 20 questions related to the full family. Even if determination are 2 members successful a family, the enumerator has to inquire 100 questions, including 40 each for some and different 20 related to the family.
It has travel to airy that galore enumerators were collecting the Aadhar paper of lone 1 household subordinate and entering his/her details to implicit the process. “The enumerator who came to my location was not acceptable to instrumentality details of my woman and 2 children. The enumerator tried to mislead maine by saying that the details of 1 subordinate were enough,” said a nonmigratory of Adarsha Nagar successful Shivamogga.
Later, helium brought the contented to the announcement of a elder official, who assured him of sending different enumerator. The complainant alleged that the enumerators were successful a hurry to execute the target. “Such hastily done survey does not service immoderate purpose. The enumerators should person been informed and educated astir the importantance of the survey,” helium said.
In different case, an enumerator wrongly entered the caste and religion of a resident, who noticed it lone erstwhile the second insisted that helium should beryllium shown the details entered. “I felt that the enumerator deliberately made incorrect entries. He edited it lone erstwhile I complained to a elder official,” said the nonmigratory of Vinoba Nagar.
In immoderate cases, enumerators were allegedly not taking responses of each the questions adjacent if the families were consenting to share. “As I person not amassed wealthiness by immoderate incorrect means, I americium acceptable to stock details of immoderate golden I possess. But surprisingly, the enumerator volunteered to suggest maine against sharing those details, informing of trouble. It seems the enumerators are not trained properly,” said a resident.
When The Hindu brought these issues to the announcement of District Office of Backward Classes Welfare Department’s Shobha, she said that the enumerators should instrumentality details of each the members of a household and not discourage families against sharing information. She added that she would look into circumstantial cases and instrumentality follow-up action.
