Caste census: Panel awaiting Karnataka CM's nod

Bengaluru: Rubbishing  reports that the state government had decided against the caste survey  being carried out a a cost of Rs 182 crore by over 1.25 lakh persons, a member of the Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission says it is nearly ready to submit it.

“Almost 95 per cent of the printing work has been done. The report has been divided into eight or nine volumes of  900 pages each. But Chief minister Siddaramaiah has not yet given us an appointment to officially present the  report to him," he told Deccan Chronicle.   

The member,  who worked for over two months across the state to compute the details, notes that such a massive exercise has been conducted after a gap of six decades.

“I see no reason for the government to discard the survey report after utilising so much human resource to compile it,” he said clarifying that at the recent  Congress coordination committee meeting, senior leader, Mallikarjun Kharge and others had merely asked the Chief Minister not to make any commitment on the Justice A I Sadashiva Commiittee report on internal reservation among the scheduled castes and tribes.

“Mr Kharge never ever spoke against the socio and economic survey  as it pertains to all castes and communities and is not restricted to the SCs,” he added.