Hyderabad: Hyderabad will be exempted, for now, from the “Intensive Household Survey”, that is scheduled to be conducted by the Telangana state government on August 19 across the state.
The existing staff strength is not adequate to cover the large number of households in the city and complete the survey on a single day. So the survey has been postponed in Hyderabad and GHMC limits, officials said.
The government will take up a special drive for conducting household survey under GHMC limits after August 19. The fresh dates for conducting the survey under the GHMC limits will be announced shortly.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is expected to hold a meeting with officials next week to finalise the schedule for household survey under the GHMC limits and the survey methodology that needs to be adopted in Hyderabad and some parts of Ranga Reddy district under the GHMC. Here the conditions are different in comparison to the conditions in other districts.
Since there is large-scale migration to Hyderabad from other states, the government feels that a different survey methodology has to be adopted here to identify locals and non-locals, who will be eligible for various welfare schemes to be extended by the state government.
The TRS government nurses ambitious plans to make Hyderabad a “slum-less city” and for that it plans to provide free double-bedroom flats to the poor.
It also plans on giving priority to Telangana locals in the scheme. The household survey holds the key, even for extending other benefits like fee reimbursement for the Telangana native students.
In the meeting convened with senior officials at the Secretariat here on Friday on household survey, the Chief Minister said that it requires a special exercise to take up survey in the GHMC area due to the presence of the huge population and a large number of households.
“Over four lakh state government staff members have been assigned for survey duties on August 19. This would be enough to cover the districts, barring Hyderabad and GHMC limits. For GHMC limits, we will take up a separate survey by drawing required staff from all the departments. The survey dates will be finalised soon,” said Raymond Peter, principal secretary, panchayat raj department, who is monitoring the household survey process.
