VIZIANAGARAM: In the absence of BC population figures and also in view of the demand for inclusion of more castes in the BC list, the Andhra Pradesh Backward Classes Commission is in favour of a door-to-door survey.

An amount of Rs. 50 crores was required for the survey, according to commission chairman Davala Subrahmanyam and members N. Lakshmi Narayana Mudiraj and V. Krishna Mohana Rao.

At a press conference here on Thursday, Mr. Subrahmanyam said the commission would receive representations during its tour in the district from various castes and submit report to the Government at a later stage.

Mr. Krishna Mohana Rao said that since the commission was constituted in 2004 as many as 112 castes had sought inclusion in the BC list. Of the 112 castes 36 had been identified so far.

Yardstick

The yardstick adopted in the survey was `limited area-less population,' he said. Already `Patra' caste in Kadapa and Anantapur districts was included in the BC-A category.

In Vizianagaram district nine castes -- Nagarala, Ayyarakala, Kurakula, Bondili, Sistakaranam, Sondi, Kalinga Komati, Pondara and Varala -- had submitted representations and they would be included in the list after assessing their literacy rate and economic conditions.

Regretting the unnecessary controversy raked up over the GO Ms. No. 23 that the Government had instructed exclusion of some categories -- Gowada, Padmasali, Munnara Kapu and Mudiraj -- from the list of BCs, Mr. Krishna Mohana Rao said no injustice would be done to any caste. He said that `Toorpu Kapu' wherever they live in the State would be considered BCs after receiving representations/objections from them.

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