A senior home ministry official said the central government is seized of the matter and keeping close eye on the situation arising out of the survey that began on Tuesday morning as it has raised suspicion among the people of Seemandhra origin.
"Appropriate intervention will be made by the home ministry at an appropriate time, if necessary," the official said.
The Central government was expecting that the situation in Telangana, particularly in Hyderabad, where tension is high, will calm down and no violent incident will take place.
"We hope that good sense will prevail and the Telangana government will not do anything that will escalate tension," the official said.
Dismissing allegations that the survey is aimed at identifying Seemandhra natives, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said on Sunday that the exercise is intended to ensure that benefits of government schemes reached the targeted sections.
Roads wore a deserted look when the Telangana government begin the "intensive household survey" in Hyderabad, on August 19, 2014. (PTI photo)
According to the "check slip" posted on the website of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), data is sought about the number of family members in a household, water tap connection, property tax assessment, LPG and electricity connections, bank account, Aadhaar card, caste certificate, birth certificate, disability, vehicles and land owned.
The Telangana government has also defied the Centre's directive on special powers related to law and order in Hyderabad vested with the governor.
The chief minister had dubbed the home ministry's order as a "fascist act" and dashed off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to rescind it.
Earlier on Tuesday, the controversial survey across Telangana, aiming to ascertain the details of an estimated 84 lakh families living in the state, started in the morning as planned.
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao (left) talking to reporters on Sunday. (PTI photo)
About four lakh employees of Telangana, including teachers and policemen, are involved in the massive exercise, according to an official news release in Hyderabad.
In contrast to heavy traffic witnessed in the morning hours usually, roads in Hyderabad wore a deserted look. The government has declared a holiday for the day and appealed to the people to stay at homes for the purpose of the survey.
Public transport buses and trains witnessed huge rush of people over the last few days travelling to their native places in view of the survey. Telangana natives living in cities like Mumbai, Surat and other places have also reportedly sought to come to their native places for the survey.
People seen risking their lives travelling on top of buses to rush to their hometowns in Telangana before the state survey, on August 18, 2014. (PTI photo)
The enumerators have made pre-survey visits to the households in the run up to the survey. In a release on Monday evening, Rao appealed to the people to make the survey a success.
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