Synopsis: The High Court of Karnataka questioned the Karnataka State Backward Commission why it is collecting Aadhaar numbers of citizens, and the basis or material that is relied upon to make the number of castes and classifications in the list.

The Union government has said that Karnataka’s socio-economic and educational survey is a “census cloaked as a survey”.

“In pith and substance, having regard to its universality, it is a census cloaked as a survey,” Additional Solicitor General Arvind Kamath submitted before the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday, 24 September.

Kamath was questioning the purpose of the survey if the state felt it was not mandatory.

While hearing a batch of petitions challenging the government’s approval to survey under the supervision of the Karnataka State Ba

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