Rajasthan will be the second state in the nation to conduct a caste survey with the event coming months forward of the meeting polls due later this 12 months in the state.
Ahead of the meeting polls in Rajasthan, the Congress government on Saturday night time issued an order for the conduct of a caste survey in the state. The order got here simply days after Bihar launched the findings of its caste survey.
Rajasthan will be the second state in the nation to conduct such a inhabitants rely. The meeting polls in Rajasthan are due later this 12 months and the election schedule is predicted to be introduced anytime quickly.
According to the order, issued by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment after the state cupboard’s nod, the Rajasthan government will conduct the survey with its personal sources for gathering data and figures associated to social, financial and academic degree of all its residents.
The Department of Planning (Economic and Statistics) has been made the nodal division for the work. However, the order doesn’t present a timeframe for the conduct of the inhabitants rely.
Sharing a duplicate of the order for caste survey on its official ‘X’ account, the ruling occasion stated, “The Congress government of Rajasthan will conduct a caste-based survey. Congress is working on its resolution of ‘whoever participates, so does his participation’.” A nationwide caste census is a key agenda of the opposition INDIA bloc, which believes it will assist the alliance in the forthcoming elections in the Hindi heartland the place caste politics performs a key function.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot instructed reporters that an order can be issued in this regard.
“We will conduct a survey. The order for this will be released immediately. It will be a survey. Census is done by the Government of India. It cannot be done by the state government. This will be a survey of families to know their economic situation. This is our party’s commitment that we are taking forward,” Gehlot instructed reporters. He additionally stated that conducting such a survey takes time.
“It took one-and-a-half years in Bihar. We have taken a decision for a survey, which is a big thing. AICC (All India Congress Committee) in its Raipur convention had made a decision and we are taking it forward. We want that the economic status of every family should be known so that they get the benefits of government schemes in the future,” he stated.
The chief minister stated that the appropriate to social safety needs to be applied in your entire nation, for which such a survey of households was vital. Gehlot stated Rajasthan will follow the model of Bihar.
“Arguments have been made (against a caste survey) in the Supreme Court. The decision has come in favour of Bihar government,” he stated, referring to the authorized problem to the train in Bihar.
According to the official assertion issued late night time, decided for the all-round growth of all sections, the Rajasthan government will conduct a caste-based survey with its personal sources.
The state government will conduct a particular research and implement particular welfare measures and schemes to enhance the situation of backwardness of varied courses. This will enhance the usual of residing of all sections, it added.
According to the Rajasthan government order, the survey work will be carried out by the Planning (Economic and Statistics) Department because the nodal division.
Also, all of the district collectors will have the ability to take the providers of subordinate personnel of varied departments on the municipality, metropolis council, municipal company, village and panchayat ranges for the survey.
The questionnaire will be ready by the nodal division for the work. All these topics will be talked about in it, in order that full details about the social, financial and academic degree of each individual could be obtained, it acknowledged.
The data and knowledge obtained by the survey will be fed on-line. For this, a separate particular software program and cellular app will be created by the Information Technology and Communication Department. The division will hold the knowledge collected from the survey secure, it acknowledged.
On October 2, the beginning anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar launched the findings of its caste survey, which revealed that Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) constituted a whopping 63 per cent of the state’s whole inhabitants. The Congress is part of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc in addition to the ruling coalition in Bihar.
