After facing technical glitches, legal challenges, protests by enumerators over inadequate training, the general apathy of Bengaluru citizens towards the exercise, and five extensions—two for door-to-door and three for online enumerations—it will be curtains down for the socio-educational survey conducted by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes on 30 November.

The socio-educational survey, conducted at a cost of Rs 420 crore, was necessitated after the Congress-ruled Karnataka government decided to junk the caste based survey done when it was in power in 2015 as the findings were a decade old and the law stipulated a review every 10 years.

Why Bengaluru Remained Disinterested

Data released by the Commission after the door-to-door enumeration concluded on 31 October, the

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