Telangana govt to launch mega house hold survey Hyderabad: In a record of sorts, the Telangana government will soon embark on a mega exercise of conducting a State-wide survey of 88 lakh households on a single day to create a perfect database of nearly four crore people.
It will rope in about four lakh government employees for this, entrusting survey of 20 houses to each one. If needed, it will even use the services of the police personnel in this massive exercise.
The survey would be conducted anytime in the second week of August. A preparatory meeting would be held on August 1 in Hyderabad to explain the modalities of the survey.
Mandal Revenue Officers, Revenue Divisional Officers, Joint Collectors and Collectors would participate in it. The meeting would be conducted in Hitex at Madhapur by the Planning Department, which is responsible for the implementation of the schemes of the government. The participants would be enlightened about the importance of survey and the modalities to be followed.
According to official sources, the participants would be trained on the pro -forma meant for the survey and they in turn would train their subordinates.
The pro-forma would contain about 25 to 30 columns covering all aspects of a family. Each family would be asked about their size, financial and social status, revenue sources, assets, needs and several other issues.
The details would be kept as a database for the government to come to an understanding on the social status of the families living in the State, needs of the people, as a base for the announcement of new schemes, purging of the existing schemes, to estimate the needed resources and for several other purposes.
The State government which is intending to dole out various welfare schemes between Dasara and Diwali would work out the same based on the survey and it is hoping that the schemes could be implemented without any loopholes with the help of the survey.
Schemes such as two-bedroom houses for weaker sections, Financial Assistance to Students of Telangana (FAST), ration cards and others are on the agenda of the government. Though such schemes were existed in the previous governments, the present regime believes that they are fraught with corruption and irregularities.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao told several times that there was rampant corruption in housing, ration cards, pensions and fee reimbursement and thousands of crores of rupees were going into the pockets of ineligible and real beneficiaries were denied the fruits of the welfare programmes.
He wants to ensure that all the schemes being planned by the government with public money should be free of corruption and should reach the real beneficiary at any cost. The survey is his brain child and it has been taken prestigiously.
News Posted: 30 July, 2014
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