The reason being the civic body’s careless attitude.

At least 300 members are required to conduct the survey in the entire municipal area, comprising 141 municipal wards. But till date the KMC has been able to recruit only 38 surveyors.

With this miniscule number of surveyors, the KMC has not been able to start the identification drive in spite that it has been asked to submit a correct and detailed BPL list to the state government by April 30.

The 38 members who will conduct the survey are primary schoolteachers of the KMC. With less than a month to submit the list of the BPL to the State Urban Development Agency (SUDA), which conducts the survey in the urban governance area, the civic body has not been able to find the rest of the 262 surveyors.

The training programme of the survey team was supposed to start from April 4 at the Town Hall.

The earlier BPL list prepared by the Self Help Group members of the KMC had to be cancelled after glaring errors were reported.

An amount of Rs 27 lakh was spent to prepare the first list, which had registered rich people and legislators under the BPL list.