Social and Educational survey: Over 1.82 lakh households in Karnataka covered in four days

The State-wide Social and Educational survey being undertaken by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes entered its 4th time connected Thursday, with mixed advancement crossed districts. 

While the survey picked up gait connected Thursday with enumerators visiting implicit 53,908 households till 4 p.m., method glitches and nationalist hesitation continued to hamper the survey. 

Overall enumerators managed to screen 1,82,734 households accounting for implicit 7 lakh individuals since the workout began connected September 22, officials said.

More than 84,000 households, accounting for implicit 3.1 lakh individuals, were surveyed by the extremity of time 3 connected Wednesday. 

However, sum has been uneven, with centres specified arsenic Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural, and Bengaluru South registering slower advancement owing to grooming delays and web problems.

While enumerators successful Belagavi and Kalaburagi covered the highest fig of households astatine 15,987 and 15,649 respectively, officials said the slightest fig of households were covered successful Bengaluru Urban and Udupi astatine 477 and 649, respectively.

Poor connectivity disrupted the functioning of the mobile application, forcing enumerators to marque repeated attempts to upload information successful a fewer districts. The ₹420-crore survey is aimed astatine covering astir 2 crore households wrong a 15-day window.

Congress meeting

Meanwhile, a gathering of Congress Ministers, legislators, and leaders from Backward Classes connected Thursday resolved to enactment the ongoing survey and to basal firmly with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

Minor Irrigation and Science and Technology Minister N.S. Boseraju said the backward communities indispensable actively enactment to guarantee the survey’s success, arsenic it is indispensable to unafraid economic, political, and acquisition benefits.

Former Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily termed the gathering “historic,” noting that akin absorption was seen during the Kelkar and Mandal Commission exercises, but the Congress ensured their implementation.

“Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is committed to uplifting marginalised groups,” helium said.

Congress MLC B.K. Hariprasad added that the workout was portion of the party’s manifesto and important to measure the socio-economic information of 197 backward communities.

Ministers and leaders besides decided to circuit districts to physique consciousness and mobilise support.