Even as enumerators rush to meet the extended deadline for caste census, a gap has emerged, with old-age homes, orphanages and other such institutions being left out of the ongoing ‘main phase’, with officials indicating that there will be a separate round for them.

The decision to exclude institutional populations from the initial count has raised concerns among the elderly. The reason for the exclusion, according to an official from the survey administration, is procedural.

Representatives from old age homes and orphanages in Bengaluru confirm that survey officials had entirely bypassed them.

Thulasi Maddineni, secretary of the backward classes welfare department, confirmed that old-age homes and orphanages were not covered in the ongoing exercise.

“After completion of the main surve

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