Enumerator workers obtain data from residents in the course of the second section of caste census, in Patna, on April 15, 2023
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As information of the Patna High Court staying Bihar’s Caste-Based Survey (CBS) trickled right down to subject officers, districts are in confusion and unsure about the best way forward. While some districts determined to cease as quickly as they heard of the order on the information, others are awaiting official orders from the State authorities’s General Administration Department.
The Bihar Government was within the center of conducting the second section of its much-touted CBS, which had begun on April 15 and was to be accomplished by May 15. However, the Patna High Court on Thursday stayed the survey until no less than July 3, and directed that the info collected up to now be secured with out it being made public.
Soon after the order, district officers discovered themselves in disarray, with many statisticians disillusioned that they must cease their train. Most district officers who spoke to The Hindu stated that the second section of the CBS had already lined 60% to 70% of their district’s populations.
“We have completed almost 70% of respondents in our district. But now, we are just waiting for orders from the State government to decide the way ahead,” one officer in Khagaria district stated. Another official in Gopalganj district stated the identical, including that they have been being rushed into a gathering with authorities officers over the best way forward.
While district officers stated they’re but to obtain formal instructions from the federal government on the CBS, some officers stated, “It would be a shame if we cannot publish the data after all that we did.”
“In our district, we have covered almost 80% of respondents through the offline form. Of this, 20% of the data had already been entered into the digital portal. But we stopped the moment we heard the order and are now expecting further instructions,” an officer in Vaishali district stated.
After the primary section, the home counting train, the Bihar Government had begun the second section, which was being carried out in each offline and on-line modes (by way of the Bijaga software). The kind for the second section was accumulating data on the inhabitants of 214 castes within the State, together with a spread of socio-economic indicators, together with academic qualification, nature/standing of employment, car possession, land (agricultural and residential) possession, pc and laptop computer utilization, housing standing, momentary migration standing, and month-to-month earnings from all sources.
