Hyderabad: In a major transfer towards data-driven social justice, the Telangana Fee for Backward Lessons has introduced a high-level assembly with heads of the State Schooling Departments on February 4.
The first agenda is the systematic assortment of caste-wise pupil information throughout all ranges of training within the state, to grasp their training ranges and job alternatives.
Making an attempt to bridge academic gaps
The Fee is looking for granular particulars from departments, together with College Schooling, the Board of Intermediate Schooling and Increased Schooling.
By analysing this information, the Fee intends to determine particular sub-castes throughout the Backward Lessons that face excessive dropout charges or lack illustration in skilled programs. This data will likely be very important for:
Focused Scholarships: Making certain monetary support reaches essentially the most marginalised sub-groups.
Coverage Calibration: Strengthening packages just like the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Abroad Vidya Nidhi.
Scientific Rating: Categorising 243 sub-castes based mostly on an goal ‘Backwardness Index.’
Why is that this occurring in Telangana?
This initiative is a part of a broader ‘Triple Take a look at’ mandate required by the Supreme Courtroom to validate reservations.
Following the 2024-25 Socio-Financial, Academic, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey—which revealed that BCs represent roughly 56.36 per cent of Telangana’s inhabitants—the state is transferring to safe a 42 per cent reservation quota in native our bodies and academic establishments.
G Niranjan, Chairman of the Telangana BC Fee, emphasised the need of this information for authorized and social empowerment.
He acknowledged: “The info we’re gathering is not only a set of numbers; it’s the scientific basis required to make sure that no sub-caste is left behind. We’re dedicated to a clear course of the place each group’s standing is precisely mirrored. This empirical proof is essential to validate our 42 per cent reservation proposal within the courts and to supply the ‘final mile’ profit to essentially the most deserving college students in Telangana.”
