Social, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste Survey- 2024 Report

Hyderabad: The Telangana Legislative Assembly, in pursuance of the decision taken by the Council of Ministers on February 4, 2024, with the main objective of conducting a Social, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste Survey (Comprehensive Household Survey) in the State, has resolved as follows on February 16, 2024.

"This House unanimously resolves that a Comprehensive Household Survey (Social, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste Survey (Caste Census)) be conducted throughout the State of Telangana as per the recommendation of the Telangana state Cabinet dated 04.02.2024 to formulate and implement various social, economic, educational, employment and political opportunity schemes for the upliftment of the people belonging to Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections"

After careful consideration, the State government decided to formulate and implement a plan for various social, economic, educational, employment and political opportunities for the Scheduled Castes and other weaker sections and issued a GO M.S. NO 18 dated 10.10.2024 to conduct the Social, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste Survey .

The Government vide 19.10.2024 6 122/Cabinet/A2/2024 2 has constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of Honorable Minister of Irrigation and CAD; Food and Civil Supplies N Uttam Kumar Reddy to supervise the conduct of the Social, Educational, Economic, Employment, Political and Caste Survey.

The Planning Department has been designated as the Nodal agency for conducting the survey. A thorough study of various surveys conducted in other States like Karnataka and Bihar has been done to understand the survey procedures and to understand the best practices. The results of this study have been incorporated into the current SEEEPC survey policy formulation.

The following survey schedules are prepared after taking into consideration the views of various Civil Society organisations , social scientists, intellectuals and other stakeholders.

a) Houselisting schedule , b) Survey schedule , c) Guidelines for enumerators

Types of information collected in the survey

The survey form had a total of 57 questions, and information related to social, economic, educational, employment, political and caste aspects was collected in a total of 75 fields including additional sub-questions.

Survey method and plan: Each district of the state is divided into an Enumeration Block (EB) of 150 households. Thus, 94,261 Enumeration Blocks have been formed.

One Enumerator has been appointed for each Enumeration Block and a supervisor was appointed to supervise every 10 enumerators. Thus, 1,03,889 Enumerators and Supervisors were appointed across the State.

Survey at Field Level : The Social, Economic, Employment, Educational, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey began on 6th November 2024 with house-listing.

In the first phase, house-listing was conducted for 3 days from 6th November to 8th November 2024. The actual survey commenced from 9th November 2024 by collecting the data of Honorable Governor of Telangana.

The survey in the State commenced on 06.11.2024 and completed on 25.12.2024 (50 days). At the end of the survey, the total number of households surveyed was 66,99,602 in rural areas and 45,15,532 in urban areas. The total number of households surveyed was 1,12,15,134.

The total number of house-listings was 1,12,15,134 out of 1,15,71,457 households. This indicates a survey coverage of 96.9 per cent.

The total number of households not surveyed due to other reasons was 3,56,323. Most of the unsurveyed households were located in GHMC and other urban areas.

Data Entry : Data entry commenced on 20.11.2024 and completed on 25.12.2024. It took 36 days to complete the data entry.

Government completed the survey successfully in all respects within one year as per the decision taken by the Council of Ministers on 4th February, 2024. This reflects effective implementation and timely achievement of targets.

Data Results from the Survey: The following survey data and results are based entirely on the information voluntarily given to the enumerators by the residents of Telangana:

A total of 3,54,77,554 persons were surveyed in the state based on the households registered in this survey. The number of people by social group is as follows...

SCs population - 61,84,319 which constituted 17.43 percent of the total population in the state .

STs - 37,05,929 which constitutes 10.45 percent .

BCs (excluding Muslim minority) - 1,64,09,179 which is 46.25 per cent of the total population.

Muslim minorities - 44,57,012, which constituted 12.56 per cent .

BCs in Muslim minorities - 35,76,588. ( It constitutes 10.08 per cent) .

OCs in Muslim minorities - 8,80,424 which is 2.48 per cent .

OCs - 56,01,539 ( 15.79 per cent of the total population)

OCs (excluding Muslim minorities) 47,21,115, which constitutes 13.31 per cent.

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy stated that the data collected through this survey will be used by the government to formulate policies for the welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and other weaker sections of the state.

This move reflects the government’s commitment to equitable growth and a way of addressing the diverse needs of the people of Telangana. It marks the beginning of a new phase of governance based on data, integrity and transparency, he said.