Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali has appealed to the people to register their details during the ensuing door-to-door survey without any fear. The survey was aimed at preparing fool-proof welfare schemes and development plans by the State government. It would help formulate policies and help the poorest of the poor in society. If the State government had an idea on the needs of the people, it would come out with a plan to meet the same, he said.
Mr. Mahmood Ali, who made a brief halt at the residence of TRS leader Captain V. Laxmikantha Rao, interacted with the newsmen while on his way to Karimnagar district here on Sunday.
The Deputy Chief Minister said that during the TDP and the Congress regimes, the welfare benefits reached the party cadre and middlemen, but never went to the needy and poor.
It was strange to find more ration cards than the actual population, he said, adding that now the State government had decided to give the benefit directly to the genuine people and hence the survey. “Many were criticising, how a survey could be done in a day. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had decided the day as a person would move from one place to another and could registers his name elsewhere, if the survey continued for few days. The duplication defeats the purpose of the survey,” Mr. Mahmood Ali explained.
On land registrations, the Deputy Chief Minister said in about three months more simplified and transparent procedures would be introduced in the department. Several types of forms would be made available to the clients and they would be given appointed time at the office to avoid waiting.
He said the government opposed the Centre’s decision to give the Governor with more powers.
He described at as an unconstitutional and anti-development move.
“Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will meet the Prime Minister and if need be we will move the Supreme Court,” he said.
