While Dakshina Kannada district administration continues to push to complete the Social and Educational Survey of the Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission before October 7, teachers and other enumerators continue to face issues in carrying out the survey in the district.

On Sunday, enumerators received a message in the morning asking them to start the survey work by 9 a.m. It said disciplinary action will be taken against enumerators found inactive after 9 a.m. Action will be taken against enumerators whose performance was below 60%, the message stated.

Pending

The main issue that concerned enumerators was that the survey app continued to show houses pending for survey by them even while it has been surveyed by other enumerators.

At the start of the survey in the district on September 24, each enumerator was given a list of 150 houses that he/she should survey. With enumerators facing problems in locating houses, the commission allowed enumerators to survey any 150 houses. Though a survey has been carried out, these houses continue to show as pending for the enumerator to whom it was allotted.

“I have now been given a list of houses pending survey today. I had to trek to a remote place in Bantwal taluk for nearly an hour only to find that the house is already surveyed,” said an enumerator, while expressing the need to know actual status of the surveyed houses on the app.

The pending list for enumerators includes sheds, commercial buildings, and unoccupied houses to which the meter readers have pasted the UHID stickers. They have found a good number of houses that are locked, and those who have refused to take part in the survey.

An official overseeing the survey work in the district told The Hindu that instructions have been given to enumerators to make a physical note of sheds, commercial buildings, and vacant houses and hand over the list to his/her supervisor. The supervisors will visit these places and delete them from the list. The locked houses will be revisited after October 7 and they will be deleted only if it continues to be locked.

Meanwhile, the district administration has roped in panchayat personnel for the survey work from Sunday. The personnel have been asked to hold camps in their places and cover all houses in their area.