Karnataka | Pitfalls of the caste count

The Congress enthusiasm for a caste census notwithstanding, the Siddaramaiah government's tabling of the Karnataka Social and Educational Survey 2015 is present a governmental blistery potato

WHO'S IN, WHO'S OUT? Karnataka main curate Siddaramaiah with Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar successful Bengaluru, Mar. 5. (Photo: ANI)

A long-gestating point connected Karnataka main curate Siddaramaiah’s argumentation wishlist yet made it to the docket of a furniture gathering connected April 17. The consternation among the Congress’s ain legislators, the aggravated tones successful assemblage debates successful the state, possibly beyond, each that had been gathering up. For, connected the array was the 306-page study of the Karnataka Social and Educational Survey (KSES) 2015—the archetypal caste census of caller times, predating that of Bihar and methodologically much comprehensive, to spot the airy of day. The study gives a elaborate break-up of the caste creation of Karnataka’s colonisation and, based connected a weighted appraisal of socio-economic, acquisition and employment parameters, recommends a hike successful preservation quota for the Backward Classes, a demographic conception present confirmed arsenic accounting for astir 70 per cent.