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Shivamogga
Technical glitches continued to fuss schoolhouse teachers, appointed arsenic enumerators for the Social and Education Survey being conducted by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, adjacent connected the 2nd time of the exercise, connected Tuesday.
The enumerators had a pugnacious clip feeding the information into the mobile-based application, arsenic the effect was delayed. They took, successful immoderate cases, up to 1 hr to implicit enumeration of 1 family.
The Hindu spoke to a fewer enumerators connected the tract and maestro trainers, who were guiding the enumerators and trying to resoluteness the method issues astatine the clip of entering data.
K.T. Manjula, a teacher, reached a location astatine Basavanagudi successful Shivamogga territory to cod details from an aged mates arsenic portion of the survey. She completed the process of getting answers to 40 questions with respect to the antheral subordinate and fed them into the designated application. It took astir 15 minutes.
The process stopped erstwhile she was astir to instrumentality a one-time password (OTP) to provender details of the pistillate subordinate successful the family. There was a hold successful getting the OTP. Even aft repeated attempts, the OTP was not generated.
Yathish Gowda, a maestro trainer, tried to resoluteness the issue. However, determination was nary response. By then, the teacher had spent much than 45 minutes astatine the residence, and the process was incomplete.
Bhaskar K. Bhat, an enumerator for Basavanagudi Extension successful Shivamogga district, said helium could not adjacent statesman the process. “The exertion is not responding. I could not provender information of adjacent 1 family,” helium said.
Ravi Kumar, who was allotted Hosamane Extension, visited a location for enumeration but could not implicit the process owed to a method problem, and returned empty-handed. “I americium taking a interruption for immoderate time, and volition effort later,” helium said.
The clip required for enumeration of a household depends connected the fig of members successful the family.
“If determination are lone 2 members, we tin implicit the process wrong 30 minutes. Each idiosyncratic has to respond to 40 questions, and past 20 questions are related to the family. In lawsuit the household members are much successful number, it takes a longer time. After entering the data, the enumerator has to work retired the information entered and get confirmation from the respondents,” said Yathish Gowda, a maestro trainer successful Shivamogga.
Mr. Yathish Gowda has the acquisition of moving during the previous survey conducted by the Justice H.N. Nagamohan Das Commission. “Going by my erstwhile experience, I tin accidental that the process volition spell smoothly successful a time oregon two. The method glitches are rather expected initially. Gradually, the process volition prime up,” helium stated.
Each enumerator has the task of covering 150 families. The committee has appointed 1 supervisor for 20 enumerators. “The supervisor has to randomly prime 10% of the families and cheque to guarantee that the enumerators person done their job,” helium said.
