Originally posted by: Reeva_Mohan
No, it was of various cities (with multiple Institutions from each city), as far as I remember.
It's not exactly checking for caste; these surveys are like caste censuses done by the government; intended to check the progress of people from the SC/ST background. So it's not discrimination.
Now I am sure you wouldn't remember the cities in which this survey was done..
But let me tell you, such an survey isn't possible in multiple cities for the reasons I already have mentioned because getting data and details of all the successful candidates isn't feasible.
Also it can't be compared to government census for SC ST welfare, the government census is done at specific times, even the NSSO surveys are done at given times with findings published officially at government websites(like Sachhar committee reports). They aren't meant for "only insiders"
This supposed research that you said isn't so. No government websites mention anything similar. Forget government, even if it were done by some big private organisation, the research findings would have been made public unlike this one of yours which only "insiders" have access to(like you said earlier)
Clearly if at all, it was a local survey by some very small private body, and such bodies asking questions on caste in an institute do very much come under discrimination under SC /ST act
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