Hyderabad:
Caste discrimination in India is “distinctive” — in all probability amongst worst in world — and the Congress will demolish the “synthetic barrier” of fifty per cent reservations, the celebration’s senior chief Rahul Gandhi mentioned in the present day. Mr Gandhi is in Telangana, which is turning into the second Congress-ruled state after Karnataka to undertake a caste census.
The caste survey shall be taken up by the state authorities from November 6 and it’ll proceed until the top of the month.
Mr Gandhi, together with celebration chief Mallikarjun Kharge, was attending a gathering organised by the state Congress, the place he interacted with social teams, caste associations and state leaders and different stakeholders.
The Congress is resolved to conduct caste survey together with financial mapping to disclose who’re the India’s poor and what number of inhabitants they comprise. This, the celebration maintains, will assist to eliminate the 50 per cent cap on reservations.
In a Hindi submit on X earlier this yr, Mr Gandhi had mentioned the steps would “X-Ray” the nation and supply appropriate reservations, rights and share to everybody, Mr. Gandhi mentioned.
The earlier panel of backwards castes was based mostly on a 1993 legislation and had mandate solely to collect information on training and employment quota. This time, the Telangana census will collect socioeconomic profile of all castes, sources had mentioned.
48,000 lecturers are anticipated to be deployed for the survey, for which major faculties will work solely half-day this month.
They’ll go from house-to-house and conduct survey to gather information. This can embody social, training, employment, financial, and political information. The federal government workers will place stickers on doorways. There shall be 85,000 enumerators.