Telangana to conduct second round of caste survey amid Opposition backlash

The Telangana government on Wednesday said it would conduct a second round of its caste survey from February 16 to February 28, India Today reported.

The exercise will cover the 3.1% of the population that did not participate in first leg of the survey in November and December, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu said.

Citizens may also seek to update their data in the second round, the Congress leader added, reiterating his government’s committment to providing the Other Backward Classes with 42% reservation in government jobs and education.

VIDEO | Telangana caste survey: Deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said, “For the people who have left and not joined, including KTR, KCR, and some others, we are giving one more chance to them to get themselves enrolled and give information for the caste survey. In the first… pic.twitter.com/WmQ1mtHCuB

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Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy tabled the caste survey in the Assembly on February 4. The survey showed that Backward Classes, including Muslims, comprise 56.33% of the state’s population. The share of Backward Classes other than Muslims is 46.25%.

The Scheduled Castes comprise 17.4%, or 61.8 lakh, of the population and the Scheduled Tribes account for 10.4%, or 37 lakh persons.

The findings of the survey sparked criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party…

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