Telangana: Houses marked for caste census

Hyderabad:The process of the caste census started at different places after government staff stuck stickers on the main doors of residences. The government staff also asked the residents to provide complete details to enumerators for the exercise that will start on November 6 and end on November 30.

Meanwhile, the government said that all primary schools will operate on a half-day schedule from 9 am to 1pm during the caste census, with teachers being deployed as enumerators. Students will also be released after their mid-day meals.

Secondary grade teachers working in upper primary and high schools will not be assigned census responsibilities. Approximately 48,000 teachers will be deployed for the survey

Conducting caste census in order to provide more benefits to BCs was a poll promise made by the Congress during the Assembly elections. It has now resolved to conduct a comprehensive house-to-house survey to collect data about social, economic, educational, educational and political and caste enumeration in the state.

This would help implement various schemes and uplift BCs, SCs, and STs and other weaker sections.

BC welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar said that the exercise will involve 85,000 enumerators with one observer for every 10 enumerators under the supervision of village, mandal, district and state level officers. He urged people to cooperate in this programme.

In the GHMC area, around 21,000 enumerators will be pressed into service. They will include bill collectors and junior assistants and resource persons from the Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA).

MA&UD principal secretary Dana Kishore briefed the enumerators and supervisors here on Friday.