Today marks the start of the Karnataka caste survey, despite BJP and Congress concerns.

The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government will begin the Socio-economic and Educational Survey, also known as the caste survey, on Monday, despite fierce opposition party protests and internal dissent. The survey will cover two crore homes throughout Karnataka.In order to suggest welfare measures, the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes (KSCBC) will gather detailed information on the social, economic, and educational circumstances of different caste groups. In Bengaluru, where government representatives will help instructors gather the data, the survey, which is scheduled to run throughout the state until October 9, is probably going to be postponed by a week.On Monday, September 22, 2025, Karnataka will conduct its second socio-economic survey. The initial survey's report from 2015 and the recommendations that were made based on it and submitted in 2024 were thrown aside by the Congress government.

The second survey, which will be carried out by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes over the course of two weeks, is being held in the midst of several protests from the BJP and some land-owning, politically powerful, and numerically dominating populations.A preliminary list of 1,400 castes has been created by the Commission. A Pandora's Box has been unlocked by this. The Siddaramaiah government has been under fire from the BJP for trying to "divide Hindus." Some caste groups and the BJP have objected to the inclusion of Christian sub-castes, which were initially recognized in the last survey based on self-names. These sub-castes included Vokkaliga-Christian, Brahmana-Christian, and Lingayat Christian.