T'gana kicks off caste survey with house listing exercise

Telangana on Wednesday launched a comprehensive household caste survey to provide socio-economic, educational, employment and political opportunities for the Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and weaker sections, becoming the third province in the last two years to embark on the exercise.

- Srinivasa Rao Apparasu

State backward classes welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar formally kicked off the survey at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal (GHMC) office in the presence of his cabinet colleague D Sridhar Babu and GHMC mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi. He handed over the survey kits to enumerators under the GHMC limits.

Prabhakar said the survey was aimed at removing inequalities and ensuring equal justice to all and it would help the government chalk out plans for the welfare and development of various sections of society. Prabhakar said the government identified 87,092 enumeration blocks covering 11.7 million families in the state, including 19,328 enumeration blocks with 2.83 million families in the GHMC limits alone. Each block comprises 150-175 families, he said.