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Indian Express
01-06-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
How key Telangana panel will gauge caste backwardness on a scale
A three-member expert committee constituted by the A Revanth Reddy-led Telangana government to study the state's caste enumeration exercise would measure relative backwardness of different castes on a scale of zero to 126 on 42 parameters. The Telangana Social Educational Employment Economic Caste Survey (2024) classified 243 castes in the state. This year, the Revanth Reddy government set up a three member committee comprising former Supreme Court Justice Sudarshan Reddy (chairman), writer and academic Kancha Ilaiah (vice chairman) and Congress leader Praveen Chakravarthy (member convener) to study the caste survey data and come up with a way of measuring the backwardness of different castes. Chakravarty, who is also the chairman of the Professionals' Congress, told The Indian Express that this is the first time in the country that 'a measure of backwardness is being done based on a wide variety of parameters'. The 42 parameters being used to measure backwardness of different castes include social circumstances, educational background, living standards, occupation, income, movable and immovable assets, and access to banking and finance. The parameters were designed on the basis of the Mandal Commission Report of 1980, which had used 11 parameters to compute relative backwardness. The Telangana panel's backwardness index has 17 points as positive indicators of development. These including inter-caste marriages, robust gender ratio, educational qualifications including diploma and above, private school education, English medium school education, government and private job profile, ownership of medium or large business, immigration to other countries for work, annual income of Rs 5 to 50 lakh, income tax payment, land holding of irrigated land or land between five to 20 acres, and households having a car and a fridge. As per this, households which have an annual income between Rs 5 and 50 lakh and own large tracts of land, for example, would get a smaller score on the measure of backwardness. On the other hand, those with annual income less than Rs 1 lakh or those who hold less than five acres of land will get a higher score of backwardness. The panel's negative indicators of backwardness include discrimination at places of worship, child marriage, women who have education below Class X, high school dropout rate, illiteracy, daily wage work, child labour, NREGA work, informal sector employment, no toilet, tap water and electricity. The Telangana caste survey had covered 3.55 crore people and collected information about 75 fields, including 'social, economic. educational, identity, occupational and living aspects of their daily lives. Of the 243 caste groups identified in the survey, 73 sub-castes constitute 96% of the population of Telangana. These include 10 sub-castes of Scheduled Castes (SCs), seven sub-castes of Scheduled Tribes (STs), 45 sub-castes of Backward Classes (BCs), and 11 sub-castes of Other Castes.
Time of India
22-04-2025
- Business
- Time of India
CM-led team attracts 12,000 cr investments as Japan tour ends
1 2 Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy-led TelanganaRising delegation's seven-day tour of Japan concluded on Tuesday with the team successfully attracting a total of 12,062 crore in investments to the state, which is likely to create 30,500 jobs. The chief minister is expected to return to the city on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Revanth-led team visited Hiroshima, where Revanth paid floral tributes to the bust of Mahatma Gandhi. Later, he laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and also visited the Atomic Bomb Dome, a structure in the city that withstood the atomic bomb explosion in 1945. Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly speaker Takashi Nakamoto and a team of legislators welcomed Revanth's visit to the Prefectural Legislative Assembly Hall, where the two sides held talks. Addressing the gathering, CM Revanth said it was an honour to visit Hiroshima. "Your city means hope. You are a symbol of what is possible when people decide to do something together. Like Hiroshima, Telangana too is all about struggle, hope, and achievement through hard work, vision, and responsibility. We both share several values. Never give up is one of them. Hiroshima stands for peace, sustainability, and prosperity. Telangana too shares those values with you. Therefore, today, I am not here to talk about investments, but partnership. A partnership to help create a better, greener, and more inclusive world," he said. The CM said over 50 Japanese companies were already contributing to the growth of Telangana. "We are ready to welcome many more as there are opportunities in clean energy, electric mobility, precision manufacturing, and green hydrogen," he said and invited the officials of the Hiroshima govt and business leaders to visit Telangana to see first-hand that Telangana can be their gateway to India and a platform for their global growth. The CM-led team also met the vice governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Mika Yokota, where IT and industries minister D Sridhar Babu explained the possibilities of collaboration between Hiroshima and Telangana, and Japan and Telangana. The areas include clean technology and waste to energy, exploring joint projects in municipal waste processing, sewage treatment and renewable energy, urban innovation and infrastructure, inviting Hiroshima's expertise in disaster-resilient design, underground metro engineering, and smart city solutions for Hyderabad. Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly speaker took the team for a ceremonial visit to the Assembly Hall, where the CM pitched Telangana as one of the best investment destinations to Hiroshima Chambers of Commerce leaders.
