Archive · 23 May 2025
Telangana Develops Backwardness Index After Caste Survey
Telangana is creating a special index to measure how different groups of people are doing in terms of their social and economic situations.
This index, called the CBI, will use information collected from a large survey of people in the state.
The CBI looks at things like education, jobs, and living conditions.
The goal is to help the government understand which groups need the most support.
Experts are using data from the 2024 SEEEPC Survey, which includes over 3.55 crore individuals across 243 sub-castes.
They are also planning to use an AI tool to help analyze the data.
The Telangana Planning and Development Society (TGPDS) is developing a composite backwardness index (CBI) for sub-castes.
The CBI will use data from the 2024 Social, Educational, Employment, Economic, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey.
The index aims to provide a statistically grounded measure of relative backwardness across communities.
The expert group is led by retired Justice Sudarshan Reddy.
An AI-powered natural language interface is recommended for data analysis.
- Who
- The Telangana Planning and Development Society (TGPDS) and an expert working group led by Justice Sudarshan Reddy.
- What
- Developing a Composite Backwardness Index (CBI) to measure relative disadvantage across sub-castes.
- When
- The expert group was constituted in March of this year; the CBI report is planned to be finalized within a month.
- Where
- Telangana.
- Why
- To advance data-driven and equitable policymaking by measuring social and economic disparities across sub-castes.
- Organization
- Telangana Planning and Development Society (TGPDS)
- Index Name
- Composite Backwardness Index (CBI)
- Survey Used
- 2024 Social, Educational, Employment, Economic, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey
- Individuals Surveyed
- 3.55 crore
- Sub-castes Surveyed
- 243
- Expert Group Lead
- Retired Justice Sudarshan Reddy
- Parameters for CBI
- 43
- Categories of parameters
- 7
