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NEW DELHI: The Karnataka precocious tribunal connected Thursday declined to enactment the socio-educational survey, popularly known arsenic a caste survey, successful the state. The court, however, asked the authorities to contented a notification that information is voluntary and not to disclose immoderate information obtained from participants.The survey - which volition grounds the social, economic, educational, and governmental practice of each caste and assemblage successful Karnataka - is the 2nd specified successful 10 years. This time, the authorities is relying heavy connected exertion to assistance them implicit the enumeration process successful 15 days.The survey got disconnected to a sluggish commencement connected Monday, with 1.7 lakh enumerators covering hardly 400 houses and 1,100 radical successful Karnataka by noon.
Officials said the gait was expected to prime up successful the coming days, with tract timings fixed betwixt 9am and 5pm.KA Dayanand, member-secretary of Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes (KSCBC), attributed the dilatory opening to teething troubles. "Today being Day 1, we expected a dilatory start, arsenic enumerators had to download these applications and commencement utilizing them. We volition spot much traction successful the adjacent mates of days," helium told TOI.
Complaints poured successful from crossed the authorities astir delays and glitches successful the mobile exertion utilized for the exercise. Delays successful receiving OTPs for Aadhaar authentication near galore respondents impatient."With enumerators having a larger country to cover, 150 houses per artifact and asking responses for 60 questions per household, a hold of 2-5 minutes successful verifying credentials of respondents has go time-consuming," 1 enumerator said.In respective cases, last submissions were not accepted by the software, portion mediocre web connectivity successful agrarian areas compounded the problem.In Bengaluru Urban and Dakshina Kannada districts, fieldwork did not commencement adjacent by Monday. While officials cited incomplete grooming arsenic a crushed for delays successful Bengaluru, disorder reigned successful Dakshina Kannada, wherever enumerators doubling arsenic booth-level officers were besides burdened with Election Commission's forthcoming peculiar intensive revision of elector lists.Teachers pressed into the survey raised concerns astir downloading the app and securing an uninterrupted mobile network. Chandrashekar Nugli, president of Primary School Teachers' Association, said, "We expect these things to stabilise, with our teachers picking up gait from tomorrow."Enumerators spoke of the hurdles they faced connected Day 1. "We collected the kit astatine Ron tahsildar's office. We could lone download the app - KSBC Social and Educational Survey - by noon. We were told to bash a census of 4-5 houses, but could not bash it owed to method difficulties. Some of our colleagues, though, started it, but galore of america couldn't," Vijayalaxmi, a teacher successful Gadag district, said.Kamala, a teacher successful Haveri district, said: "...I started the survey, but the archetypal household failed to supply capable information, truthful I couldn't upload the details. I successfully uploaded details from the 2nd location aft 3 hours."
