India, May 5 -- Karnataka has launched a state-wide door-to-door survey to collect detailed data on Scheduled Caste (SC) communities, including their sub-castes, education levels, and economic status.

The 13-day exercise, which began on Monday, is aimed at helping the state government decide on internal reservation among SC groups, The Hindu reported.

The initiative is led by a commission chaired by retired High Court judge HN Nagamohan Das.

According to the report, nearly 60,000 enumerators will fan out across Karnataka over the next two weeks, each tasked with collecting data from about 130 households. Equipped with a custom-built mobile application, these field-level staff, mostly school teachers and anganwadi workers, will record d...