Bidar: Notice has been issued to two teachers who had climbed a tree and a water tank due to the poor mobile network during the ongoing caste census in Karnataka.

The Basavakalyan District Education Officer issued notices to one Govinda Maharaj, a teacher at the Government Higher Primary School in Hulsur taluk and one Anil Kumar Shastri, a teacher at the Government Lower Primary School in Handral.

Enumerators had to go to great lengths to conduct the caste census on Wednesday. With network issues continuing to dog the process, one enumerator at Mirakhal village in Hulasur taluk of Bidar district had to clamber up a neem tree to access the mobile network to open the app.

Another enumerator’s risky ascent to the top of a water tank in the same taluk ultimately proved futile.

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