Nearly four lakh government employees collected the details in door-to-door survey, which ended at 7pm in the districts.
Terming the survey "historic" and a "super hit", Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao thanked the people for their tremendous response despite the attempts by some quarters to create controversies and spread misinformation.
The chief minister told a news conference in the evening that the data would be compiled and computerized in 10 to 15 days and will be available from his office down to the office of a gram panchayat or a village.
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Stating that the data will help the government to ensure that there is 'no pilferage of a single paisa', Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao (left) appealed to other states to undertake similar exercise for improving implementation of welfare schemes.
Rao said the data would help the government in identifying the real beneficiaries of various welfare schemes, weeding out the bogus ones and also in better planning of its programmes to meet the requirement of the population.
"Statistics are key to success of any programme," he said. The government itself was in dark about the population in Hyderabad.
It was estimated to be 80 to 90 lakh but the survey shows that it has crossed 1.20 crore," he said. Thanking the government employees and college students for carrying out the survey without any remuneration, Rao, also the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief, said if people continue their cooperation, the government can realize the dream of "golden Telangana".
Brushing aside the criticism by opposition and allegations that it is aimed at singling out people from Andhra Pradesh living in Hyderabad, the TRS government embarked on the massive exercise.
Roads wore a deserted look when the Telangana government begin the "intensive household survey" in Hyderabad, on August 19, 2014.
The survey began at 7am across the state with enumerators going door-to-door to gather information like names, age, educational qualification, profession, Adhar card numbers, bank account number, property and other details of the family members.
In Hyderabad, as many as 75,000 government employees gathered data of 20 lakh families in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
Contrary to speculations in some circles that the survey is aimed at targeting people from Andhra Pradesh living in Hyderabad, the survey form has no nativity column. Even declaring bank account number was optional.
The GHMC officials gathered data from chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and governor ESL Narasimhan and their family members. As Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his family members were not available at their residence, GHMC collected details from his family.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is enumerated at his residence in Hyderabad during the state household survey, on August 19, 2014.
Normal life came to a complete halt across Telangana as the government declared a holiday to enable people to remain at home and participate in the survey.
Shops, petrol bunks, hotels, cinema halls, business establishments, companies, factories and educational institutions remained shut. All buses of state owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) buses went off the roads. Thousands of people from various parts of the country reached their home towns and villages for the survey. Families residing in Hyderabad but having their records registered in districts also headed for their native places to participate in the survey.
The TRS government said lack of credible data was a major hurdle in planning and implementation of welfare scheme as total number of ration cards exceed the number of households.
People seen risking their lives travelling on top of buses to rush to their hometowns in Telangana before the state household survey, on August 18, 2014.
It alleged that huge irregularities were committed in the past in implantation of schemes like housing for poor, reimbursement of fee of poor students, free healthcare and social pensions.
Despite criticism, it went ahead with the survey in a single day to ensure that there is no duplication and bogus beneficiaries are removed.
Stating that the data will help the government to ensure that there is "no pilferage of a single paisa", Rao appealed to other states to undertake similar exercise for improving implementation of welfare schemes.
'Will not spare cheats'
Rao on Tuesday also said that he will not spare looters and cheats and will not hesitate to send his son or daughter to jail if they are the culprits.
"We will discriminate the cheat and looters. We will not spare the culprits. If they are my son or daughter, they will be sent to jail," Rao said at a news conference after statewide household survey. He was replying to a query about the apprehensions in some quarters that there may be discrimination against people from Andhra Pradesh settled in Hyderabad.
K Chandrasekhar Rao, chief minister of Telangana.
The chief minister, who recently accepted Hitler's tag given by his critics and said that he is Hitler for thieves, reiterated that he is determined to provide corruption-free administration.
KCR, as he is popularly known, said the socio-economic survey conducted across Telangana Tuesday was part of his efforts to weed out bogus beneficiaries of various schemes.
The chief minister said the massive response of the people to the survey was a slap in the face of the opposition and those who were creating apprehensions and controversies.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief said some people who did not participate in the survey in Hyderabad on the ground that they are not availing benefits of any welfare scheme committed a social crime.
"You are living here. You get drinking water, sewerage facility, street lights, roads and other amenities. When the government is trying to find out what is total population and its requirements, you are not participating in the survey. This is a social crime," he said.
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