In what could be a shocking and embarrassing move to the Telangana government, a part of the data of the Intensive Household Survey of Telangana goes missing. The government has received 1.3 Lakh applications for pensions in the GHMC region but the survey data of only 80000 is available. The data may have gone missing some how if the claims of complete survey is true.
If the data has not gone missing, then the government’s claims of completing the survey in GHMC are not true. GHMC officials now are gearing up for the resurvey of the 50,000 people in Hyderabad district. Government has deployed government teachers to complete this work and is getting the work done as silently as possible so as to make sure it attracts media glare.
It is known that the ruling government has increased toddy tapper, weaver, widow, and old-age pension amounts from Rs. 200 to Rs. 1,000 while disabled pensions have been increased to Rs. 1,500 from existing Rs. 500. The government is synchronizing the pension applications with the Survey data to identify the genuine beneficiaries.
