Computerisation of the data collected during the Intensive Household Survey – 2014 last month has gathered momentum across Telangana State with officials exuding confidence that the task would be completed within a fortnight.
Officials across Telangana roped in experienced data entry operators and drafted the services of private engineering colleges for computerising the information. Officials are awaiting a final word from the Government on whether another round of enumeration should be taken up to cover the left out persons.
Karimnagar district has already computerised the data of as many as 9.26 lakh households out of the 12.77 lakh covered on August 19. Seventy seven data entry centres were opened by installing 2,000 computers. Ninety per cent of work was completed in Sircilla, Manthani and Peddapalli revenue divisions while Huzurabad and Karimnagar divisions lagged behind.
Data entry work would be completed in three or four days in Adilabad district as 52 per cent of exercise was already done by operators working on 936 computers at 72 centres across the district.
Adilabad Chief Planning Officer and in charge of IHS, Sk. Meera said that the survey revealed the existence of 8.43 lakh households against an estimated 7.92 lakh. He said no more identification of households will be done now. About those left out, Mr. Meera said such complaints were examined and genuine ones were redressed.
According to M.S. Shanta Kumar, Medak District Informatics Officer,in Medak, a total of 8.81 lakh housesholds were enumerated against 8.33 lakh identified in pre-survey. However, 14,828 houses were found locked, according to District Revenue Officer S. Dayanand.
Ms. Yasmin Basha, Project Officer, Rajiv Vidya Mission said data was being entered at all MPDO and Tahsildar offices. It was being taken up in more than 100 centres including some private engineering colleges like BVRIT at Narsapur.
In Khammam data entry process is yet to gain pace. Although, private engineering colleges were roped in, shortage of data entry operators has become a major hurdle. The Zilla Parishad officials have conducted a special drive here on Monday to enrol experienced data entry operators. Meanwhile, thousands of households still remained uncovered by the household survey in the district due to various reasons. Around 20,000 households were marked as “door locked” in the district. When contacted, in-charge Khammam municipal commissioner Shankar Lal said the process of training enumerators to conduct survey in the leftover households in the town is underway.
Next to Karimnagar, Nalgonda district stood second in data entry, according to Nalgonda ZP Chief Executive Officer K.Damodar Reddy. About 6.30 lakh of the 11.70 lakh households have been digitised so far. Deputy Tahsildar P. Syamsundar Reddy said they have arranged about 1,200 computers at 18 engineering colleges and all the 59 Tahsildar offices. All Tahsildars have been asked to keep a register to collect data of left out households. The hard copies of data would be displayed at gram panchayat and ward offices.
Warangal Collector G.Kishan said that the computerisation of survey data was likely to be completed by September 10. “We have so far computerized the details of nearly 3.5 lakh households. Our target is to complete the task by September 10,” he said. The district administration has collected the details of 11.5 lakh households as part of the survey. There were 60,000 households still left out.
(With inputs from S. Harpal Singh (Adilabad), K.M.Dayashankar (Karimnagar), P.Sridhar (Khammam), R.Avadhani (Medak), T.Karnakar Reddy (Nalgonda) and G. Srinivasa Rao (Warangal)
