Hyderabad, May 12 -- Telangana BC Welfare and Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar said on Sunday that the state has become a national model by conducting a transparent Backward Classes (BC) caste survey and passing a historic bill to increase BC reservations to 42% in education and politics.

He recalled that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had promised a nationwide caste census during his Bharat Jodo Yatra. Telangana has fulfilled that promise at the state level under the leadership of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.

The BC caste survey was conducted in a lawful and comprehensive manner by the BC Commission led by Busani Venkateswara Rao, with the support of nearly one lakh government emplo...