Won’t allow teachers to be involved in fresh caste survey, says Madhu Bangarappa

Shivamogga

Minister for School Education Madhu Bangarappa has said that teachers will not be involved in the socio-economic and educational re-survey to be conducted in the coming days.

Speaking to presspersons here on Saturday, the Minister said he had conveyed to the government that he could not allow teachers to be involved in the process to collect data.

“If we involve them in the process, teaching will suffer in schools for several weeks. I have conveyed this to the government, which will make proper arrangements for the exercise,” he said.

The State Cabinet recently gave the go-ahead for a fresh Socio-Economic and Education Survey, popular as caste census. It decided to conduct such a exercise after junking a 10-year-old survey report.