Civic employees will visit as many as 39 lakh households in Mumbai during an ongoing survey of the Marathas and other general category communities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Wednesday.
The survey, which began on Tuesday, was being conducted on the directions of the Maharashtra State Commission for Backward Classes for assessing the social, economic and educational backwardness of the Maratha community.
The drive has been undertaken even as activist Manoj Jarange and thousands of his supporters are on their way to Mumbai to launch a fresh agitation for reservation for the Maratha community from January 26.
The BMC has roped in about 30,000 of its around 92,000 employees for the seven-day survey that has to be completed before the end of this month, said additional municipal commissioner Sudhakar Shinde.
Appealing people to extend cooperation to the enumerators as the survey is to be completed within deadline, he also made it clear that taking part in the exercise is voluntary, and the data collected will remain completely safe.
“Personal data is very safe. Personal data won’t be available to anyone,” Shinde said, adding that at least four questions will be asked to those who are already taking benefit of reservation. For those who are not beneficiaries of any quota, there are around 160 questions in the questionnaire.
On Tuesday, the enumerators faced some trouble while gaining entry into housing societies and a glitch in the software also caused problems, yet about 2.65 lakh households were surveyed, Shinde noted.
Of 30,000-odd surveyors, only 17,345 enumerators were given user IDs and passwords for using the software on Tuesday which caused some issues, as per a BMC release.
Each employee has been given the target of surveying 150 households, it said.
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