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Technical glitches during enumeration, absorption from teachers,-and a deficiency of involvement by radical continued to mar the Social and Educational Survey connected the 2nd day. Many peculiarly highlighted trouble successful identifying houses since the Revenue Registration (RR) fig of the vigor metre is being utilized to geo-tag residences.
The fortnight-long survey being conducted by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes has truthful acold covered astir 18,500 households of the estimated 2 crore households successful the State.
Highlighting the RR fig issue, a teacher successful Koppal territory said: “It would person been easier to place the location with the voters’ list. We are uncovering it hard successful identifying houses.”
The households person been mapped for the archetypal clip successful the state utilizing the metre number. Earlier surveys utilized the voters’ list.
A authorities schoolteacher successful Dakshina Kannada said that tracing each location successful the lack of the database of names of location owners is becoming difficult.
“The app provides america lone the numbers mentioned connected the stickers pasted extracurricular the houses, which are geo-tagged. It is challenging to usage the determination app to hint the location and get the information,” said different authorities teacher.
By the extremity of the 2nd day, the enumeration of 18,487 houses had been completed covering a colonisation of 71,004. The highest fig of households surveyed was successful Haveri with 2,783, portion Tumakuru recorded the lowest astatine seven. Bengaluru Rural (77 households), Bengaluru Urban (53), Chickballapur (36), Kolar (60), and Udupi (55) were among the districts signaling little numbers.
“It is hard to survey houses due to the fact that the GPS doesn’t sync erstwhile scanning the barroom codes connected stickers affixed to houses. If you spell to the location, you cannot find the house. So, the officials are asking to download a abstracted way representation app to amusement the houses being surveyed and the CEG Face Recognition app for the photograph individuality of the heirs of the houses. However, our mobile phones did not enactment these apps,” said an enumerator of Bengaluru South district. “If you participate the UGHD (house) numbers successful the census app, it shows failed.”
The teachers person besides urged for an hold of clip bounds for entering the accusation successful the survey app to let them to get indispensable documents. “Currently, 3 minutes are fixed and aft that the process has to statesman again,” different teacher said.
Refuse to articulation survey
In Belagavi, immoderate teachers protested against being drafted into the survey enactment and refused to spell for the survey, claiming that the Education Department officials had forced them to join. Seeking exemption from the survey work, they sat successful protest.
Though postgraduate anganwadi workers person been called to assistance teachers in the survey work, a typical of Dakshin Kannada District Anganwadi Workers’ Union said nary person truthful acold travel forward.
Glitches continue
In Dakshina Kannada, enumerators continued to look problems logging into the survey app. They received an upgraded APK record connected Tuesday. “We are incapable to login to the upgraded survey app,” said a authorities superior schoolteacher successful Puttur.
New enumerators were being drafted to the survey enactment and trained online successful places specified arsenic Kalaburagi. In Dharwad, by the clip method issues were sorted, it was already 5 p.m and astir 70% of the 4,800 enumerators were capable to initiate the process aft resolving the issues. “The survey volition prime up connected Wednesday arsenic each of the enumerators volition beryllium completing survey of astatine slightest 10 households,” Chief Executive Officer of Dharwad Zilla Panchayat Bhuvanesh Patil told The Hindu.
(With inputs from Bengaluru, Mangaluru, Hubballi, Belagavi, Kalaburgi, Shivamogga)
