Karnataka caste survey panel keen on Dasara launch: Report
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Backward Classes Commission is reportedly keen on taking up the fresh social and educational survey (caste census) during the upcoming Dasara holidays, aiming to utilise the period when teachers are free from academic duties.
Commission Chairperson Madhusudan R. Naik said that teachers should be the primary choice for enumerators. “Utilising government and aided teachers for such surveys has been a time-tested method. We are in the process of preparing a package, which includes a possible request to extend the 15-day Dasara holidays by another 10 days,” Deccan Herald quoted him as saying.
Meanwhile, Naik explained that teachers are ideal for the task because they are well-respected, honest, educated, and committed to public service. He cited the example of the recent Scheduled Castes survey, where complaints only surfaced during the final phase—after teachers had resumed school duties. “The enumerators involved in those complaints were not teachers,” he added.
The commission is preparing a proposal in this regard, which will be submitted to the state government soon.
The government intends to complete the survey within three months from the date of the government order, which is yet to be issued, DH added.
If the holiday extension proposal is not approved, the commission may need to explore alternatives, such as outsourcing the work to other agencies or involving ASHA workers and bill collectors.
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Compromised PM didn't sign trade deal with US, but a bargain for Adani's release: Rahul
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of signing a trade deal with the US only to secure the "release" of billionaire businessman Gautam Adani.
"Compromised PM did not strike a trade deal, but a bargain for Adani's release," Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X, after reports that the US has agreed to settle the lawsuit that accused Adani of hiding alleged bribery.
The US government has agreed to settle the lawsuit filed against Adani, who is accused of duping investors by concealing that his company's huge solar energy project in India was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme, according to court filings published Thursday.
Reacting to the reports, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said it was now clear why the PM agreed to the "hopelessly one-sided Indo-US trade deal that was really a steal by the US".
"And it is also clear why he abruptly halted Operation Sindoor on May 10, 2025, acting on President Trump's threats rather than on our national interest. Reportedly, the Trump Administration is about to drop all charges of corruption against Modani," he said on X.
"How much more compromised can the PM get?" Ramesh asked.
In the lawsuit filed in late 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani, who is a director at the group's renewable energy unit Adani Green Energy Ltd, of agreeing to pay about USD 265 million in bribes to Indian government officials between approximately 2020 and 2024 to obtain lucrative solar energy supply contracts on terms that expected to yield USD 2 billion of profit over 20 years.
It was alleged in the lawsuit that Adani Group raised USD 2 billion in loans and bonds, including from US firms, on the backs of false and misleading statements related to the firm's anti-bribery practices and policies.
The ports-to-energy conglomerate had denied the allegations.
