Adilabad Caste Census Reveals Household Surge

Adilabad: Enumerators on Friday discovered more houses in their blocks than the estimated number during the integrated caste census in the erstwhile Adilabad district.

The number of households increased as the listing process continued in gram panchayats and municipalities. Officials reported receiving different numbers of households when enumerators visited their allocated blocks.

Initially, officials found 1,49,161 houses in 433 gram panchayats and 48,393 households in Adilabad municipality. However, the number later rose to 1,50,384 households.

District collector Rajarshi Shaw said that a total of 1.97 lakh households have been identified in Adilabad district. He added that there might be further increases in the number of households.

The collector urged families residing in rented houses in municipalities to first register their names during the house listing in their respective villages.

He explained that mismatches occur as some people living in rented houses informed enumerators that they would register their households in their native villages as part of the household listing.

An enumerator who was listing households in a colony in Adilabad municipality told Deccan Chronicle that some houses lacked numbers, and civic officials need to assign numbers to those houses.

Families constructed new houses after getting married and live separately, but these houses were not listed in some areas of Nirmal, Mancherial, Nirmal, and Adilabad districts.

The enumerators mentioned that they assign the same number to parents and their children’s houses on the same premises. Currently, enumerators do not include houses without numbers, and a decision will be made about such houses later to add them to the final household list in the municipalities.