Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that knowing the socio-economic situation of the communities is necessary to provide social justice.
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Maintaining that the Centre’s proposed caste survey is not a socio-economic and educational survey, which, according to him, is needed to initiate measures for social justice, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has defended the State government’s decision to conduct a fresh caste census.Speaking to presspersons in Davangere on Monday, the Chief Minister said that the fresh socio-educational and economic survey has been taken up as there have been objections from both the upper and downtrodden communities to the earlier survey.Mr. Siddaramaiah said that the general census being taken by the Union government is different from the socio-educational, economic census being conducted by the State government.“Knowing the socio-economic status of the communities is necessary to provide deliver social justice and that’s why the caste census is being conducted now,” he said.He further clarified that the State government has no qualms about the census of the Union government. “It is different from our socio-economic census. Moreover, the Centre has not said anything on conducting a socio-economic census. We are conducting a caste census along with the socio-economic census,” he said.“Moreover, as per Section 11(1) of the Backward Classes Commission Act, after the expiry of 10 years of a report, a re-survey should be conducted. That is why re-survey has been ordered,” he said. Published - June 16, 2025 04:24 pm IST
