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Sadashiva commission begins survey of SC families

Making a point:Justice A.J. Sadashiva addressing the media in Bangalore on Saturday.

BANGALORE: The Justice A.J. Sadashiva Commission of Inquiry has launched a socio-economic and educational survey of 21 lakh families spread over 101 sects of Scheduled Castes in the State and will complete it by December-end.

Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Sadashiva said the commission would submit its report to the State Government in June next. The terms of reference covered issues such as whether people from 101 sects were getting facilities under Article 15 and 16?, if not why?, the extent to which they had benefitted from reservation?, and the measures to be undertaken by the Government to set right the anomaly.

He said that the survey was withheld because of 2011 census. According to 2001 census, the population of the Scheduled Castes was 85.64 lakh and it might cross one crore by 2011. Accordingly, the commission would have to survey 21 lakh SC families.

The survey would be held in two phases. One related to officials and employees in the Union Government, State Government and public sector undertakings, and the other to study the socio-economic, educational and political status of SC families in the State.

Information on employees working in Union and State governments and PSUs had been collected. KEONICS would be asked to make data entry and create a software, he said.

He said that 41,000 enumerators and 6,000 supervisors had been appointed to conduct the survey in 1,12,188 blocks in rural and urban areas of the State.

Sufficient time had been given to complete the survey, keeping in mind the vagaries of nature and difficulties in getting the services of teachers for it.

Forms containing 199 questions had been printed and handed them over to enumerators who would help the SC families to fill them.

Senior officers, including department secretaries, had held meetings at all levels and trained the enumerators. Care had been taken not to miss details of any SC family. Duplication, wrong or misspelling of names and sects would be corrected and the list published in respective village/town/ward offices to help the families correct the mistakes, Mr. Sadashiva said.

Asked whether the commission would consider the demand of Madigas, who constituted a major chunk of the SCs for internal reservation, Mr. Sadashiva said that it could not be done.

He said that the Andhra Pradesh Government did it. But the Supreme Court struck it down on the ground that the Andhra Pradesh legislature did not have the legislative competence to pass such a Bill.

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