Telangana: BC caste survey public hearing set to begin on Monday

The State government has tasked the BC Commission to decide the percentage of reservations for the OBCs in local bodies

Hyderabad: The Backward Classes Commission is all set to begin public hearings on the reservation to be given to BCs on the basis of population in local bodies in the State from Monday. The State government has tasked the BC Commission to decide the percentage of reservations for the OBCs in local bodies.

The BC survey in the State is scheduled to take place in three phases over an eight-week timeframe. The first phase will focus on listing approximately 1.2 crore households. The second phase will involve enumerators collecting data from households and in the third phase, the gathered data will be processed and verified before submission to the government.

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The BC Commission has already issued notices for public hearings from October 28 to November 13 at erstwhile joint district headquarters and at the Commission office. The public hearing will start from Adilabad district on Monday, with Commission chairman G Niranjan and members Jayaprakash, Surender and Balalakshmi attending the event.

The public hearings are scheduled to take place across various districts. They will commence in Adilabad on October 28, followed by Nizamabad on October 29 and Sangareddy on October 30. The hearings will continue in Karimnagar on November 1, Warangal on November 2, Nalgonda on November 4, Khammam on November 5, Rangareddy on November 7, Mahabubnagar on November 8, and conclude in Hyderabad on November 11.

Each session will be held at the respective Collectorates and integrated district office complexes. In addition to these district-level hearings, the commission will conduct exclusive sessions at its office for NGOs, institutions and caste and welfare associations on November 12.

A separate hearing for the general public is scheduled for November 13. Those who participated in these and could not raise objections can send them to the office of the commission in person or by post till November 13.

The enumerators would broadly obtain information on the social, educational and economic status of citizens and if they have got any political opportunities. The commission would recommend the percentage of reservations for backward classes in local.

About 80,000 enumerators and 10,000 supervisors would be involved in the survey to be conducted across the State. The deadline for submitting the data is December 9.