Recently Chief Secretary, chaired a meeting of Housing & Urban Development Department (H&UDD) to assess the household survey to be carried out by the Department in collaboration with the Planning Development & Monitoring Department for identification of houseless people in J&K.

He underscored the need for one week training of the surveyors/investigators and building upon the YUVA survey application in order to make this exercise time bound besides cross checking the already collected information. He asked them to complete the survey in the month of March itself so that the process of identification and framing of merit list is accomplished well ahead of the set timeframe.

He took note of the methodology of identification process contemplated by the Department.

He sought suggestions from the Deputy Commissioners and asked about the timeline by which they can complete the exercise. He also had inputs from BISAG-N about the time they need to make necessary changes in the already developed YUVA survey app to make it relevant for this new survey.

Commissioner Secretary, H&UDD, Mandeep Kaur, gave out the details about the significance of this survey to be carried out digitally on the analogy of YUVA survey in all the ULBs of J&K. She made out that this survey is going to provide details of the houseless people which after proper verification process would be framed into a merit list based upon their income and other set criteria.