Summary:
According to the state’s population ratio, 36 per cent Marathas are below poverty line, he told the court on Friday. Sancheti, on Thursday, had told the court that the agencies had conducted the survey only on 43,000 families, covering two lakh people. He said that a background check on these five agencies found that none of the agencies had past experience to conduct such a large-scale survey. He also told the court that of the five at least “three agencies are politically connected”. Sancheti also told the high court that of the 43,000 families, on which the agencies had conducted the survey, only 950 families were from urban areas and the rest were from rural areas..