Survey increases responsibility on government to fulfil poll promises
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao. (Photo: DC/File)
Hyderabad: Lure of a two-bedroom house in rural areas, flats in the city under the weaker sections housing scheme, ration cards, land for landless dalits and girijans were among other promised sops and the main reason behind the success of the unprecedented Telangana government’s Intensive Household Survey.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and his team are overwhelmed by the huge response to the survey especially from women, but it has also increased the responsibility on the government to fulfil its electoral promises.
Take the case of Rajamani, a maid in the city who rushed to her village near Siddipet in the fond hope that she would get a two-bedroom house, a ration card and other fringe benefits offered by Telangana government.
“Though I stay in the city, I have enrolled in the village since the government is providing two-bedroom houses for homeless families and three acre land for SCs. We don’t have a house or ration card,” says Rajamani.
Such cases are aplenty. If the poor have rushed to their native villages, it only because of the sops offered to them. “People, especially women, wholeheartedly participated in the survey because of the sops offered by the government. Two-bedroom houses, 3-acre land for dalits, girijans, ration card, fee reimbursement among others are the main reason. It is but natural people participated in expectation of government benefits,” said a senior official who got feedback from the different parts of the state.
The official said though the survey was not as intensive as was initially designed it gave a fair picture of state population and households. TRS Mahbubnagar MP A.P. Jitender Reddy said the CM received calls from different states over the huge success of the Intensive Household Survey.
“People are wondering how KCR could do it. It has created a sensation in the country. Political will power and co-operation of the people can certainly create miracles,” he said.
TNGOs president Devi Prasad said the government should have included nativity column in the survey form. “Many people felt that the government should have kept nativity column to ascertain the real picture of the population. What’s wrong in declaring that he hails from Guntur, Karimnagar and other places?” he asked.
While the government launched a three-acre land scheme for dalits on August 15, Mr Rao proposes to launch the old age pension scheme of Rs 1,000 and Rs 1,500 pensions for the physically challenged by Dasara and Deepavali.
Though he planned to launch the two-bedroom housing scheme in rural areas, it has been now been put on hold due to large-scale irregularities during the regime of the previous government, where a CB-CID inquiry has been ordered.
Sources said the government would launch a housing scheme only after completion of the CB-CID inquiry, identification of past and present beneficiaries. “Since the government plans to spend Rs 3.5 lakh to Rs 4 lakh per house, it wants to be sure that only needy families get it,” another official said.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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