Overview

• Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the questionnaire’s Christian sub‑caste field has been removed and defended the survey as a tool to map socio‑economic and educational deprivation.
• Reporting says the Karnataka Backward Classes Commission took 57 Christian sub‑castes out of the list and told enumerators to record such responses under an 'Others' category, with converted respondents allowed to disclose original caste but still logged as 'Others'.
• The state plans to run the survey from 22 September to 7 October at an estimated cost of Rs 420 crore, deploying about 1.75 lakh teachers using a mobile app for field data collection.
• Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot formally objected to adding 'Christian' identifiers beside Hindu caste names and warned of social harm, as BJP leaders met him seeking to halt the exercise and urged respondents to record their religion as Hindu.
• Several ministers raised concerns about the complexity of caste listings and a report said Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar was headed to Delhi to ask the Congress leadership for permission to postpone the survey.