Following within the footsteps of Bihar, Odisha authorities on Monday launched the OBC survey. According to an official, the survey will come to an finish by May 27. The opposition BJP has criticised the ruling dispensation over the style by which the train is being undertaken, whereas the ruling BJD stated the survey is being held to make sure the socio-economic improvement of the opposite backward courses (OBC).
Bihar was the primary state to have launched the survey, the primary part of which was launched on January 21 and the second on April 15 this 12 months. It is being carried out in all 314 blocks and 114 city native our bodies of Odisha, the official stated. “The objective of the survey is to get a picture of the present social and educational conditions of the people belonging to backward classes in Odisha,” he stated.
Survey performed in on-line, offline kind
The social and academic circumstances of 208 enlisted OBC communities can be collected throughout the survey, which can be adopted by a particular drive to be certain that none was ignored throughout the state, the official stated. The Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes (OSCBC) is conducting it in each on-line and offline modes and can embody varied indicators like occupation, academic {qualifications} together with the kind of academic establishments attended by the members of the households to gauge the social and academic circumstances of backwardness within the state Odisha, he stated.
The fee has opened facilities in all Angawadi kendras and in numerous PDS retailers the place folks from the group will submit their particulars and full the survey, the official stated. The state authorities stated in a notification that the survey can be carried out below the powers conferred by the OSCBC Act, 1993 and OSCBC (Amendment) Act, 2020. According to the provisions of the 2 Acts, the heads of the households or any senior particular person can present the household knowledge on the survey middle. The households below survey require to give particulars of their ration and Aadhar playing cards or voter identification playing cards of their members.
OBC households having no ration playing cards can also submit their particulars on the survey facilities. The folks may register their particulars for the web survey freed from price, the official stated. This aside, the folks may register their particulars at ‘Mo Seva Kendras’ by making the requisite cost, he stated. Lashing out on the BJD authorities in Odisha over the style by which the train has been undertaken, the opposition BJP has dubbed the drive as “a drama to hoodwink the people”. It demanded holding of the door-to-door survey as an alternative of in numerous camps.
BJP state OBC Morcha president Surath Biswal accused the state authorities of endeavor the survey with a ‘political motive’ because the simultaneous basic and state election are due in 2024. The state has disadvantaged 54 per cent of individuals in Odisha of their constitutional rights for therefore a few years by not updating the backward class checklist. Biswal alleged that the state authorities is ‘enacting a drama within the title of OBC survey to mislead folks forward of elections’.
Biswal stated, “We doubt that there is a bid to reduce the OBC ratio in the state’s population”. He claimed that 15 castes named in central OBC checklist are but to be included within the state’s SEBC (socially and educationally backward class) checklist and blamed the state authorities for giving false data just lately about together with 22 castes in it. Those castes which haven’t been included should be added within the checklist and be enumerated. Migrated households also needs to be included. Biswal demanded that it present 27 per cent quota to OBCs in training and jobs as in different states.
Why is the survey going down?
The ruling BJD maintained that the survey is being performed to make authorities insurance policies more practical, make sure the socio-economic improvement of the backward courses and enhance their social and academic circumstances. “The survey is being conducted without having any political consideration as alleged by the opposition parties. It is purely for the welfare of OBCs,” BJD vice-president and MLA Debi Prasad Mishra stated.
The SC, ST, minorities and OBC Minister Jagannath Saraka stated “The government has no political intention. The survey is being conducted for the welfare of the OBCs. Let the opposition say what it wants, the Naveen Patnaik government is dedicated to the welfare of the OBCs”. The Odisha State Commission for OBC chairperson Justice Raghunath Biswal stated that the survey work can be accomplished inside 5 months. Those who should not lined within the survey now could also be added within the checklist later, he added.
