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On Wednesday, the Union government told the Karnatak High Court that the constitutional provision assumes a single authoritative census (central government) under the Census Act and at the same time describes the ongoing social and educational survey conducted by the state government as a “census as a survey”.
This submission was carried out in front of the divisional bench, which consisted of the main judge of Vibhu Bakhr and the judiciary of CM Joshi during hearing at a dose of petitions that questioned the legality of the survey to collect details of caste, religion, social and educational status of all Karnataka citizens through Karnataka State Commission.
Another general lawyer in India, which appeared for the center, ArvIND Kamath said that the Center has already announced the census, which also included a list of caste, and the government in this survey has lost its way into the domain of the center. Mr. Kamath also clarified the court, if the state government conducted a survey, it had to be specific to the problem.
As the Commission’s attorney claimed that people had not given people to tell enumerators, the bench asked for what office the readers of electricity was authorized to attach stickers and whether the listeners clearly informed people before the information was not compulsory for them to reveal this information.
Meanwhile, the state government claimed that the current data were necessary for framing and implementing social security programs and stressed that the Top Court in its right to the question of privacy on Aadhaar allowed the government to collect data for social security purposes.
Further hearing will continue on Thursday about the petitioner’s action for the survey.
Published – September 24, 2025 21:28
