4 nominated for Karnataka Backward Lessons panel

“4 new members have been appointed to the fee — former IGP Ok Arkesh from Channapatna, advocate Shivanna Gowda from Mysuru, Mangaluru-based assistant professor B Sumana, and CM Kundagol, a retired principal from Dharwad. With these additions, the panel is now totally operational underneath the management of Madhusudhan R Naik, a former advocate-general who was appointed because the chairman in January,” stated a senior official accustomed to the event. It was communicated to the fee on Sunday.

“The fee is anticipated to carry discussions quickly and advise the federal government on how you can proceed with the proposed enumeration of the inhabitants,” the official stated.

The official additional stated that the suggestions have been communicated to the fee, nonetheless, the official orders are but to be issued.

Whereas the fee could also be entrusted with the duty, officers have indicated the potential of establishing a brand new committee for the aim. Siddaramaiah has additionally requested his ministers to share their solutions earlier than finalising modalities.

In contrast to the 2015 train, which relied closely on schoolteachers and suffered delays, the upcoming survey will doubtless lean on digital instruments to hurry up information assortment, the official quote above stated.

With faculties now in session, the federal government is contemplating deploying academics after class hours and paying them for his or her time, stated one other official.

Nonetheless, the revival of socio-educational survey efforts has reignited resistance from highly effective communities, together with Vokkaligas and Veerashaiva-Lingayats, who beforehand slammed the Kantharaju report as flawed and accused it of undercounting their populations.

On Sunday, the Samajika Nyaya Jagruthi Vedike warned the state in opposition to dashing into one other survey. At a roundtable in Bengaluru, members questioned the necessity for a state-specific rely when the Union authorities has already dedicated to a caste-based enumeration within the upcoming decadal census.

“The Karnataka authorities has already wasted 10 years within the identify of caste census. A decision was taken within the assembly to induce the federal government to not waste folks’s tax time and money to conduct one other caste census,” stated Vishnukant Chatapalli, a consultant of the discussion board.

He additional stated, “The central authorities will conduct a caste census together with the inhabitants census. The caste census will embody social and academic elements in addition to cultural particulars. The Centre will spend ₹13,000 crore for this.”

Arguing that solely Union-collected information would have constitutional legitimacy, the discussion board demanded the state to launch the Kantharaju report back to the general public and chorus from initiating a parallel course of. “If the state authorities doesn’t cease conducting separate caste censuses, authorized motion ought to be taken,” stated Chatapalli.

Attacking the federal government, BJP MLA V Sunil Kumar questioned the chief minister’s shifting place on implementing the Hegde report.

“Regardless of how a lot stress comes, we is not going to settle for Jayaprakash Hegde’s report. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has repeatedly stated that we’ll implement the suggestions of that report. However why did he change his stance after going to Delhi and returning?” he requested. “Whether or not the federal government accepts or implements the report is a secondary concern. First, it ought to be launched for public consciousness.”

Responding to those criticisms, Congress MLA Yathindra, Siddaramaiah’s son, blamed the earlier governments for the delay in caste enumeration. “Had these administrations responded appropriately and moved ahead with the sooner report, we wouldn’t be able the place one other survey is important,” he stated, referring to the BJP and JD(S) governments’ inaction on the 2015 report.