<p>Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has directed the state government to inform it by August 27 of the time it needed for conducting a survey to come out with recommendations on reservations for BCs and other categories in local body elections.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J Sreenivas was hearing a bunch of petitions seeking implementation of reservations for BCs category wise in local body elections, including in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.</p>.Telangana is the missing piece of jigsaw puzzle of America, Inc's search for a China plus One strategy: CM Reddy.<p>The bench referred to the Supreme Court’s earlier direction that states should first set up a dedicated commission to conduct a "contemporaneous empirical survey" to collect data of various categories of BCs by the panel before earmarking reservations.</p>.<p>The petitioners challenged the powers given by the BC Finance Corporation to collect the empirical data of BC, saying that cannot be done by a corporation and needs a dedicated commission to do it.</p>.<p>In 2021, the Telangana government designated the existing BC Commission as “Dedicated Commission” and vested powers in it to conduct the empirical survey, BC Commission sources said.</p>.<p>The petitioners contended that the election notification for local bodies should be issued only after the survey is done.</p>.<p>The high court's directive came on a petition filed by BRS leader Sravan Dasoju, who among others sought a direction to the Telangana government, the state election commission and other respondents to forthwith undertake the exercise.</p>.<p>The HC posted the matter for hearing on August 27. </p>
<p>Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has directed the state government to inform it by August 27 of the time it needed for conducting a survey to come out with recommendations on reservations for BCs and other categories in local body elections.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J Sreenivas was hearing a bunch of petitions seeking implementation of reservations for BCs category wise in local body elections, including in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.</p>.Telangana is the missing piece of jigsaw puzzle of America, Inc's search for a China plus One strategy: CM Reddy.<p>The bench referred to the Supreme Court’s earlier direction that states should first set up a dedicated commission to conduct a "contemporaneous empirical survey" to collect data of various categories of BCs by the panel before earmarking reservations.</p>.<p>The petitioners challenged the powers given by the BC Finance Corporation to collect the empirical data of BC, saying that cannot be done by a corporation and needs a dedicated commission to do it.</p>.<p>In 2021, the Telangana government designated the existing BC Commission as “Dedicated Commission” and vested powers in it to conduct the empirical survey, BC Commission sources said.</p>.<p>The petitioners contended that the election notification for local bodies should be issued only after the survey is done.</p>.<p>The high court's directive came on a petition filed by BRS leader Sravan Dasoju, who among others sought a direction to the Telangana government, the state election commission and other respondents to forthwith undertake the exercise.</p>.<p>The HC posted the matter for hearing on August 27. </p>