Backward classes make up for more than half of Telangana’s population: Caste survey

In implicit numbers, the backward classes (BC) colonisation of the authorities is 1,64,09,179. The SC colonisation is 61,84,319 and ST colonisation is 37,05,929. The full fig of OC radical successful the authorities stands astatine 44,21,115.

The Muslim colonisation successful the state, according to the survey, is 44,57,012, retired of which 35,76,588 are BC Muslims. BC Muslims marque up 10.08% of the colonisation and OC Muslims relationship for 2.48%.

The SEEEPC covered 96.9% of households successful Telangana successful a span of 50 days, authorities curate Uttam Kumar Reddy said astatine a property league successful Hyderabad connected Sunday. The announcement was made aft a gathering betwixt ministers Uttam Kumar Reddy, D Seethakka, Ponnam Prabhakar and Damodar Raja Narasimha.

The survey was conducted by deploying 94,863 enumerators and 9,628 supervisors crossed 94,261 enumeration blocks. A full of 76,000 information introduction operators digitised the accusation wrong 36 days. It was undertaken by the state’s readying section aft a solution to that effect was passed successful the authorities Assembly connected February 4, 2024. The findings volition “help refine payment schemes, amended occupation opportunities, and uplift weaker sections”, according to the government.

The caste survey was 1 of the promises made by the Congress successful Telangana successful its predetermination manifesto successful 2023. The Congress swept to powerfulness that year, defeating the determination Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) successful the Assembly election.

Speaking astatine the property conference, Uttam Kumar Reddy said that successful examination with Bihar, wherever a akin survey was undertaken, Telangana’s process was creaseless and efficient. He said Bihar’s survey took six months and Rs 500 crore to complete.

“It is simply a historical time for societal justness successful Telangana. The completed study stands arsenic a milestone that volition redefine governance and policy-making successful the state,” Reddy said.

He announced that the study would beryllium presented earlier the Cabinet connected February 4. It volition aboriginal beryllium enactment up for a abbreviated treatment successful the Assembly connected the aforesaid day.

“This marks a important measurement towards data-driven governance, fulfilling a large committedness made by Congress person Rahul Gandhi during the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections. The Congress government, led by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, person present laid the instauration for payment policies based connected real-time socio-economic data,” Uttam Kumar Reddy said.

BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar said the survey is simply a “golden section successful the past of Telangana due to the fact that ample swaths of radical participated successful it, showing spot successful the Congress government”.

The survey did look hurdles on its way. “Among the cardinal operational challenges were that 1.03 lakh houses were recovered locked, 1.68 lakh families were initially hesitant to participate, and 84,137 houses were misclassified owed to non-residential usage oregon occupants being non-Telangana residents,” Uttam Kumar Reddy said.