Info collected for caste census in Telangana will be confidential, Bhatti

Telangana deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Wednesday, November 6, said that the information collected for the caste census in the state will be kept confidential.

He appealed to the public not to worry and urged them to furnish information to the enumerators without any apprehensions.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Telangana government officially launched its comprehensive caste census, with the minister



for BC Welfare, Ponnam Prabhakar, inaugurating the initiative at the GHMC office.

This census aims to gather detailed data on the social, economic, educational, and political demographics of various communities across the state. The Telangana government has made extensive preparations for this survey, which will span approximately three weeks. A total of 80,000 enumerators and 18,000 supervisors have been trained to facilitate the process.