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Survey made so simple
The stage is set for the mega Intensive Household Survey. The entire Telangana state will come to a standstill on Tuesday.
No hidden agenda, says KCR
- TS will come to a standstill today
- Except emergency services everything else is closed
- Many people were seen going to their native places
- Court rejects appeal against holding survey
- Officials, GHMC chief allay all fears of people
- Enumerators already started the work on Sunday
- Proforma was distributed for people to furnish details asked for
- There are just 10-12 points and no question on nativity
- People need not go to native places, they can fill the forms in the city
Hyderabad: The stage is set for the mega Intensive Household Survey. The entire Telangana state will come to a standstill on Tuesday. All workplaces except hospitals and other emergency services would remain shut today, and people have been asked to be at home until the survey forms are filled and signed. No public transport facility will be functional and no shops or cinema halls will be open. About 4.5 lakh employees including police personnel, teachers and students have been appointed as enumerators.
All buses and trains that left Hyderabad were overcrowded. In fact people were travelling on bus tops. At Secunderabad railway station, the passengers who were unhappy with the authorities for not making proper arrangements stopped Bhagyanagar Express and staged protests.
The survey has raised apprehensions of a hidden agenda. A few people are wary that the government might use the survey information against them as they originally hail from Seemandhra.
Following protests from various quarters, the government has simplified the proforma for the survey and the Chief Minister and the ministers tried to allay the fears that the survey was meant to determine the nativity of the people staying in the state in general and Hyderabad in particular. They claimed that the survey was intended to gather some facts about every household in the state to implement target-oriented welfare schemes for poorer sections of the society. The government got a shot in the arm as the High Court paved the way for the mega survey by striking down a petition which alleged that the survey targeted the people of Seemandhra.
Meanwhile, GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar told the media on Monday that it was not a survey to find out the assets of the people. He said people were at liberty not to disclose the details they do not want to. He said that people need not even go to their native places and could give the details wherever they were staying.
By- election. However, survey will not take place in four mandals in Khammam district which were transferred to AP as they would be submerged under the Polavaram project.
The GHMC Commissioner said that people who faced any problem in the survey should lodge their complaints through email or by contacting the call-centres. According to him 13.40 lakh families were visited during the pre-survey and of them, 21, 636 homes were locked. Check-list had been sent to all the houses and the inmates were told to keep them ready. There was no need to submit photo copies of the documents, he added.
