Telangana govt's caste survey begins; CM Reddy briefs Guv

The Telangana governments comprehensive socioeconomic employment political and caste survey an election promise of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi began on WednesdayChief Minister A Revanth Reddy described the survey as a yajna to achieve social justice for the oppressed classes and equality of opportunitiesThe massive exercise that began on Telangana soil is an adventure that will change the countrys social outlook under Rahul Gandhis leadership he said on XReddy also met Governor Jishnu Dev Varma and briefed him about the surveyThe CM urged the Governor to take the survey to the notice of the Centre so that it can be taken into consideration during the national census to be held in 2025Reddy who was accompanied by Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and other leaders explained the details regarding the survey and its process to the Governor an official release saidThe CM and leaders told the Governor that Telangana will stand as a role model for the country with regard to the survey in the state it saidOfficial sources said house listing would be carried out in the first phase of the survey from November 6 to 8 in every enumeration block followed by household survey from November 9 in the second phaseDeputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said as many as 94750 enumerators and 9478 supervisors have been selected across the state Each enumerator would cover 150 householdsTraining has been given to both the enumerators and supervisors he saidObserving that the survey aims at realising the goals of equality of opportunities and social justice as mentioned in the Constitution he appealed to the citizens to furnish information to the enumerators for the noble causeThis caste survey is to understand the various sections of society what is their political economical social status and whether they are able to receive the resources opportunities other things equally or not he told reportersOnce the entire survey is done we would be able to understand if the wealth of the state power of the state and other revenues are equally accessible to the people or not he saidThe survey collects information on households with 56 main questions and 19 supplementary questionsThe queries in the survey relate to religion caste marital status educational qualifications work annual income etc of the members of the householdOne of the questions is whether the members of the family are able to visit the local templesmosqueschurchesother places of worship freely without any discrimination and threatAssuring that the data received as part of the survey would be kept confidential Vikramarka said the citizens need not have any doubts in sharing informationOnce the entire survey is completed we will announce the present status of society of all the communities of all the people of society he saidRahul Gandhi who attended a meeting organised by Telangana Congress on the caste survey on November 5 said he is fully committed to ensuring caste census in Telangana and in making the state a model for caste census in the countryState Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar who kicked off the survey at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal GHMC office urged the citizens to furnish information to the enumerators without any apprehensionsDescribing the survey as a historic decision Prabhakar said the exercise would show the path to the country in the days to comeThe data would be used to run the government to ensure that people get a due share in the fruits of development as per Rahul Gandhis slogan of determination of share proportional to population he saidState IT Minister D Sridhar Babu who attended the event at Shankarpally near here said the survey would help the government chalk out plans for the welfare and development of various sections of societyCongress activists performed a milk abhishekam to a portrait of Rahul Gandhi at Gandhi Bhavan here the party headquarters in Telangana on the occasion of caste survey getting underwayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever