- Vishweshwer Mangalapalli Much has been said and alleged about the intentions of the Comprehensive People Survey of Telangana. Thanks to the steadfastness of the Govt, we are moving ahead with it. If done with a reasonable amount of sincerity, the survey would lead to collection of data which would be a treasure trove. However, what will really determine the efficacy of this survey is what the Govt does with the data it collects post the survey. Given this context, I spoke with the Chief Data Scientists in a couple of analytics companies that I know of and both were unanimous that the data can be mined to give comprehensive insights which could form inputs into multiple areas In the recent ...

Taking the lead in the Telangana survey, CM KCR and his family participated in the Intensive Household Survey in Hyderabad and gave out all required information in the 3 page survey form bought by enumerators. His son KTR and grandchildren were present during the survey. Interestingly, only a day before, TDP MLA Revanth Reddy challenged the CM to do the same and criticized the CM of arranging the survey with an agenda. While allies TDP and BJP have dubbed the survey with all kinds of labels, the State’s population overwhelmingly participated in the survey with more than 90% of survey reportedly complete by 9 PM. In some areas, survey was happening late into the night. The State Government already announced tomorrow ...

Greater Hyderabad, with more than a million population, wore a deserted look today with normally busy and congested roads getting completely empty. Transport services have been stopped, offices, education institutes closed and cinema theatres, petrol stations shut down — the Telangana government ewent all out to make every one in the new state’s population is counted and their socio-economic status profiled on Tuesday. People have moved in large numbers to their villages to register, while Telangana migrants from out-of-state came home for the same purpose. Though the State Govt stated that people need not be in native places for the survey, people took no chances and deserted the city and went to native places to attend survey there. With nobody and no vehicles ...

Hyderabad High Court on Monday refused to issue a stay on the Intensive Household Survey being conducted by Telangana Government across 10 districts, including Hyderabad. This is the 2nd time the court refused to give any stay or interim orders against the survey, in last 4 days. While referring to a petition filed by Supreme Court Advocate P V Krishnaiah seeking to quash the survey order as the government failed to follow Constitutional norms and procedures, the court made it clear that they cannot direct the government to stall it’s procedure. The petitioner appealed to the court to stop the survey as the government issued a circular instead of a GO with regard to the survey. On hearing the arguments of the Government counsel, who also submitted all details ...

Updated (13 Aug, 2014) Download the Survey forms, Manuals and Codes the State Government has finalized for use on August 19th, 2014 across the State. Here are the links to download the PDF forms. Forms are separate for GHMC and Non-GHMC areas. Below are separate forms. GHMC Forms are available in both English and Telugu for download. These same forms would be used on survey day. The four page form is designed in English and Telugu separately for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits and rural areas. The manual for enumerators and codes for different types of information in English and Telugu separately for GHMC and rural areas were also uploaded. The form for GHMC is distinct from that of the rural ...