Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar on Sunday stated that the federal government is not going to take any hasty resolution relating to the Socio-Financial and Schooling Survey report, popularly often known as the ‘caste census’, that was just lately tabled earlier than the state cupboard.
He stated the cupboard will undergo the report and focus on it, and can do justice to all primarily based on the information, as he additionally referred to as the statements being made in opposition to the report as “political”.
The Karnataka State Fee for Backward Lessons’ report was positioned earlier than the cupboard on Friday, and it is going to be mentioned at a particular cupboard assembly scheduled on April 17.
The Fee, underneath its then Chairman Okay Jayaprakash Hegde, had submitted the report back to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on February 29 final yr, amid objections raised by sure sections of society and voices in opposition to it from inside the ruling Congress.
“The CM has spoken about it. I’ve not but seen the report as I used to be visiting Belagavi and Mangaluru yesterday. It needs to be mentioned within the cupboard. Apparently, the CM has stated that it is going to be mentioned within the Meeting too. Nobody will take any hasty resolution,” Shivakumar stated.
Talking to reporters at Doddaballapur close to right here, he stated, “Some could also be making political statements about it (caste census), however we’ll perceive the information and do justice for all.” In the meantime, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge stated he’s not aware of what’s within the report and therefore he wouldn’t prefer to touch upon it.
“I don’t know, as a result of I’ve no details about what can be mentioned within the cupboard or what’s there within the report. If I get the report I can say one thing. Or if there may be any clear resolution from the April 17 cupboard assembly, I can react to it,” he instructed reporters right here.
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In accordance with the survey report, out of a complete 5.98 crore residents lined underneath the survey that was carried out in 2015, about 70 per cent or 4.16 crore come underneath varied OBC classes, in line with official sources.
The Fee has advisable climbing the OBC quota from the present 32 per cent to to 51 per cent, they stated.
By giving OBCs a 51 per cent reservation quota, together with the present 17 per cent for SCs and seven per cent for STs, it is going to take the state’s complete reservation to 75 per cent.
As per the report, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (S/ST) collectively appear to kind the biggest social block within the state with their inhabitants at 1.52 crore, official sources stated.
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Although the caste-wise break-up of OBCs isn’t obtainable from the report but, Muslims, who alone come underneath Class-2B of OBC are with a inhabitants of 75.25 lakh, whereas the final class at 29.74 lakh, they stated.
Karnataka’s two dominant communities — Vokkaliags and Lingayats — have been expressing reservations in regards to the survey, calling it “unscientific”, and have demanded that it’s rejected and a contemporary survey be performed.
The Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities (2013-2018) had in 2015 commissioned the survey within the state.
The State Backward Lessons Fee, underneath its then chairperson H Kantharaju, was tasked with making ready a caste census report. The survey work was accomplished in 2018 in the direction of the tip of Siddaramaiah’s first tenure as Chief Minister, and the report was finalised by his successor Okay Jayaprakash Hegde in February 2024.
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With robust disapproval from the 2 politically influential communities, the survey report could change into a political sizzling potato for the federal government, as it could set the stage for a confrontation.
Earlier, Shivakumar, who can also be the state Congress president, and a Vokkaliga, was a signatory, together with a few different ministers, to a memorandum submitted by the neighborhood to the chief minister earlier, requesting that the report and the information be rejected.
All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha, the apex physique of Veerashaiva-Lingayats, which has additionally expressed its disapproval vis-a-vis the survey and demanded conduct of a contemporary survey, is headed by veteran Congress chief and MLA Shamanuru Shivashankarappa. A number of Lingayat ministers and MLAs too have raised objections.
