“Will Demolish Artificial Barrier Of 50 Per Cent Reservations “: Rahul Gandhi

Hyderabad:

Caste discrimination in India is “distinctive” — most likely amongst worst in world — and the Congress will demolish the “synthetic barrier” of fifty per cent reservations, the occasion’s senior chief Rahul Gandhi mentioned at the moment. Mr Gandhi is in Telangana, which is becoming the second Congress-ruled state after Karnataka to undertake a caste census. 

The caste survey might be taken up by the state authorities from November 6 and it’ll proceed until the top of the month. 

Mr Gandhi, together with occasion chief Mallikarjun Kharge, was attending a gathering organised by the state Congress, the place he interacted with social teams, caste associations and state leaders and different stakeholders.

The Congress is resolved to conduct caste survey together with financial mapping to disclose who’re the India’s poor and what number of inhabitants they comprise. This, the occasion maintains, will assist to eliminate the 50 per cent cap on reservations. 

In a Hindi put up on X earlier this yr, Mr Gandhi had mentioned the steps would “X-Ray” the nation and supply right reservations, rights and share to everybody, Mr. Gandhi mentioned.

The earlier panel of backwards castes was primarily based on a 1993 legislation and had mandate solely to collect knowledge on training and employment quota. This time, the Telangana census will collect socioeconomic profile of all castes, sources had mentioned.

48,000 academics are anticipated to be deployed for the survey, for which main faculties will work solely half-day this month.

They’ll go from house-to-house and conduct survey to gather knowledge. This can embody social, training, employment, financial, and political knowledge. The federal government employees will place stickers on doorways. There might be 85,000 enumerators.