CM: 2nd round of caste survey from Feb 16 to 28

The Telangana government will conduct a second round of socio-economic, educational, employment, political and caste survey from February 16 to 28, in the wake of criticism from the opposition that the earlier survey was not comprehensive, besides objections raised by some OBC groups and leaders from within the Congress that there were discrepancies in the figures of various castes.

- Srinivasa Rao Apparasu

HYDERABAD: The Telangana government will conduct a second round of socio-economic, educational, employment, political and caste survey from February 16 to 28, in the wake of criticism from the opposition that the earlier survey was not comprehensive, besides objections raised by some OBC groups and leaders from within the Congress that there were discrepancies in the figures of various castes.

A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting convened by chief minister A Revanth Reddy with his cabinet colleagues and senior officials at the state secretariat on Wednesday evening.

State deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka told reporters after the meeting that the fresh survey will cover the remaining 3.1% of the population, which did not take part in the first round of survey. "Even those who took part in the first round of survey but want to update their information can furnish the same in the second round," he said.

According to the information furnished by the state government in the special session of the assembly on February 4, the door-to-door household comprehensive caste survey held between November 6, 2024 and December 25, 2024, covered 354,775,554 people and 11,215,134 families.