KCR’s Intensive Household Survey receives a question mark

Hyderabad: The Chief Minister of Telangana KCR has decided to hold the Intensive Household Survey-2014 to weed out fake beneficiaries from the government’s list. The very purpose and the objectives associated with the survey is a welcoming one.

KCR has iterated that the officials will visit all 84 lakh homes in the state to collect data with utmost dedication. For the same, the entire state government and the police personnel in civil dress will be deputed; and if needed the military support will also be sought to make the entire show a success.

On Tuesday evening while addressing a press conference in Karimnagar, KCR said that everyone must remain in their homes on August 19 for the ibid survey. He said, “If you are not home on that day, you will not be counted”. This very statement has drawn a storm. People wonder how the already fixed muhurthams for weddings and other auspicious occasions could be procrastinated. The people also wonder how somebody could stop the natural happenings like the births and deaths of the people, which are beyond anybody’s control.

Even the educated elites pose a question on the statement made by KCR and seek a clarification. The same question was posed by one of the media personnel at the same time. KCR in response said that in cases of emergency, the doctors attending to the patient will do the needful to get their data registered and indirectly hinted that “Where there’s a will there’s a way”.