Hyderabad: India's newest state Telangana will be witnessing an unprecedented door-to-door survey on Tuesday. 'Telangana Samagra Kutumba Survey' or 'Telangana Intensive Household Survey' will cover over 84 lakh households in the state. The enumerators will visit all houses in all 10 districts of the state. The survey has generated a lot of heat in the political circles.
People from the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh settled in Telangana are alleging that the real purpose of the survey is to identify them, whom the Telangana people call 'settlers'.
They fear the survey might make them 'unwanted' in Telangana. The Hyderabad High Court (previously Andhra Pradesh High Court) on Thursday gave its nod to the Telangana government to conduct its intensive household survey in the state on August 19 after the government confirmed that it was voluntary and there is no element of compulsion. While refusing to stay the survey, Justice Vilas Afzulpurkar said that the government would have to strictly adhere to the statement made before the court that disclosure of information was only on voluntary basis.
Dismissing allegations and apprehensions expressed by Seemandhra people over the survey, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhara Rao said that the survey was aimed at eliminating only the bogus beneficiaries of various government schemes. He denied the reports that after the survey, Seemandhra people would be targeted.
Total shutdown expected
Telangana may witness a total shutdown on Tuesday due to the survey. People working in Hyderabad and Secundarabad have rushed back home to be a part of the survey. People living outside the state and country have also rushed back home to be a part of the survey.
Even essential services like petrol pumps, hospitals, milk booths, newspaper vendors, pharmacies, auto, taxi and bus services are also likely to be hit by the survey.
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