SC Survey Under Credibility Cloud, Community Leaders Worried

Some enumerators lack in training; Caste certificates not being insisted on, say leaders; Rise in Beda Jangama population to be brought to panel's notice

- Devaraj B Hirehalli @ Bengaluru

Authenticity is going to be a challenge for the ongoing Scheduled Caste (SC) internal quota survey with some leaders of the community questioning its conduct.

Apart from technical glitches early on, there are allegations that some enumerators lack in training and enthusiasm.

A hurried job would reduce the Justice H N Nagamohan Das Commission to the fate of the Socio Economic Educational Survey (SES-2015) by Backward Classes Commission, which some communities dubbed unscientific, according to certain SC communities' leaders.

The leadership of SC left and right communities has questioned how mere self-declaration would lead to credibility in the absence of caste certificates.

They fear that a considerable number of non-SCs would enumerate themselves falsely as 'beda jangama' and it would change the caste equation.