Telangana map is seen in this illustration with the word 'Caste Survey' written
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Hyderabad: The Independent Expert Working Group (IEWG) constituted by the Telangana government to study the Socio-Economic, Education, Employment, Political and Caste Survey (SEEEPC) on Saturday submitted a comprehensive report on its findings to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.
The committee had adopted a scientific methodology to find insights into the caste survey data, which will help the government in enabling social justice and empowerment.
The expert group includes prominent social scientists such as French economist Thomas Piketty and Belgian-born Indian economist Jean Dreze, among others.
The findings of the survey will help the government in formulating
policies and streamlining and bettering existing ones to enable social justice, social empowerment and social uplift.
The Caste Survey, held in two phases, employing over 1,03,889 enumerators and supervisors, was the first of its kind in independent India.
The staff worked with a scientific methodology and followed rigorous processes and subjected it to abundant cross-checking and real-time scrutiny to reach out to 96.9% households in the state.