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NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party connected Thursday upped the ante against the Congress-led Karnataka authorities aft CCTV footage showed Bengaluru civic assemblage workers randomly pasting stickers without collecting immoderate information during the ongoing door-to-door survey of Scheduled Caste households successful Karnataka.BJP MP PC Mohan shared the video successful a societal media post, dubbing the full workout a "comedy of errors.""In 2015, the Congress authorities spent ₹170 crore connected a caste census successful Karnataka, past blamed dogs for its flaws," Mohan said."Now successful Bengaluru, BBMP is pasting caste stickers without collecting immoderate data. From dogs to data-less drama, Congress’s thought of societal justness is simply a drama of errors," helium added.
In the CCTV footage, 2 BBMP workers were seen pasting stickers astatine a location and clicking pictures without collecting immoderate information from the residents.This comes aft the Karnataka authorities launched a survey to stitchery information connected Scheduled Caste sub-castes for guiding its interior preservation policy.Chief curate Siddaramaiah called it indispensable for ensuring societal justness and equitable organisation of benefits.“There are 101 sub-castes, including Left, Right, Lamani and others, but nary empirical information is available,” helium said, adding that the 2011 census lacked this granularity.
The authorities decided to transportation retired caller caste survey aft apprehensions by immoderate sections astir the erstwhile caste census data.The caste census study was, submitted to Karnataka cabinet, had recommended expanding reservations for Backward Communities from the existing 32% to 51%.The proposal is based connected the findings of the socio-economic and acquisition survey, besides known arsenic the caste census, which highlights that Backward Communities marque up astir 70% of the state's population.The last study was submitted to main curate Siddaramaiah successful February 2024.The survey has faced absorption from assorted assemblage groups, including dissenting voices wrong the ruling Congress party.While immoderate leaders and organisations representing Dalits and OBC groups supported the survey's publication, citing the Rs 160 crore of nationalist funds spent connected it, others continued to reason its implementation.
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