The exercise, being undertaken by the state backward classes commission, will begin on September 22 and it will go on till October 7.
Siddaramaiah said the government would draft 1.75 lakh teachers to gather the data. Each person will get up to Rs 20,000 as honorarium. The government, the CM told the media, has provisionally budgeted Rs 420 crore, and the government can release more funds if necessary.
The CM told the media that the fresh round of survey has become necessary as the data gathered in the previous survey was 10-year-old. “This survey will provide the data needed to design effective welfare programs for everyone.”
The exercise aims to cover a population of about seven crore people across two crore households. The enumerators will gather detailed information on the social, educational, political, and economic status of every family.
The enumerators would geo-tag each house using its electricity meter number and assign a unique household ID (UHID). Even households without an electricity connection will be thoroughly surveyed to ensure no one is excluded.The state Congress regime has been forced to take up a fresh enumeration of castes after the AICC was flooded with complaints from political and religious leaders of dominant communities that the data gathered during the last survey were flawed. The AICC leadership including Rahul Gandhi pushed Siddaramaiah to model the census on the lines of the socio-economic, education, employment, political and caste survey the Congress regime in Telangana had conducted.The All India Veerashaiva-Lingayat Mahasabha, meanwhile, has already asked its members to identify themselves as Veerashaiva-Lingayat, and not as Hindus.
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