Social and Educational Survey: Enumerators in DK shocked to find houses in neighbouring districts in their list of houses to be surveyed

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Several enumerators of the Social and Educational Survey successful Dakshina Kannada were connected Tuesday amazed to find a marked summation successful the fig of houses allotted to them to beryllium surveyed.

Some of the enumerators told The Hindu that they recovered houses successful Chikkamagaluru and Kodagu districts successful their database to beryllium surveyed.

An enumerator successful Belthangady was shocked to spot the full fig houses helium was expected to survey leap from 150 to 5,000 connected Tuesday. “I bash not cognize however the houses, which were not successful my database earlier, were tagged to me. Though this has been brought to the announcement of the Directorate of Electronic Delivery of Citizen Services, it has truthful acold not been resolved,” the enumerator said.

A teacher from Bantwal taluk, who joined the survey enactment connected October 1, said helium saw 280 caller houses added to his list. These houses were from antithetic areas, including Peruvai and Manila successful Bantwal taluk. “These areas are caller to me. I bash not cognize however these caller houses were tagged to me,” said the teacher, who has worked for a agelong clip arsenic a booth level serviceman successful Bantwal taluk. Another teacher from the taluk recovered 20 caller houses tagged to her.

Technical problem

The enumerators recovered that the houses that were surveyed proceed to beryllium flagged arsenic ‘pending’ successful the Pratha app, which the enumerators usage to find the houses allotted to them. Inspite of requests, those successful complaint of the app person refused to marque the changes.

In the database of houses allotted to the enumerators, they person been asked to springiness details of houses that were locked, houses successful which residents had refused to instrumentality portion successful the survey, and commercialized establishments and sheds. They blamed the Mescom linemen and metre readers for wrongly geo-tagging the houses that were recovered to beryllium hotels, barroom and restaurants, and different establishments.

Meanwhile, supervisors connected Tuesday began visiting vacant houses, commercialized establishments and sheds, and to adjacent the related UHIDs.

Published - October 07, 2025 08:05 p.m. IST

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