Hyderabad, April 21 --  Nearly half of all Scheduled Caste workers in Telangana are daily wage labourers. Among General Caste workers, it is barely one in 10. An OC Brahmin is thirty-eight times less likely to be working as an agricultural labourer than an ST Kolam. And of the 5,302 people in the state who own a medium or large business, 12 per cent come from just one community - OC Komatis.

These are the occupation and income findings of the Telangana government's Socio, Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey 2024, a door-to-door census of 3.55 crore people across 242 castes, analysed by an Independent Expert Working Group (IEWG). 

What the data shows, across 10 occupation indicators and five i...