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| Deserving left in lurch | | | The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), housing for all scheme, has been caught in different wrangles in Jammu and Kashmir. It has not been implemented in a way it should have been and many deserving beneficiaries have been deprived of the benefits.
Sarpanchs and Panchs of almost all the districts across Jammu and Kashmir have raised the issue of many deserving people being left out. The reasons ascribed for poor being left out are technical errors, which haven’t got rectified till date.
The PMAY was introduced with a vision of providing “Housing for all”, to address the urban housing shortage among the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) / Lower Income Group (LIG) and Mid-Income Group (MIG) categories, to ensure a ‘pucca’ house to all eligible urban households, by the year 2022. As part of the mission, the government rolled out various schemes. But the main aim of the scheme was to provide the people living in kacha houses with paca structures so that they could live without any fear.
Panchs and Sarpanchs were asked to forward the list of the people in their areas who are living under Below Poverty Line (BPL) in kacha houses. The lists were forwarded along with Geo-tag images but all the sent cases were not included in the final list. This has left many deserving candidates disappointed.
The Union Rural Development Ministry had recently pulled up the J&K Government for the slow pace of the housing scheme and recommended for an intense follow-up required by JK administration to complete the target. The J&K Government has been able to construct just 37% houses till date against the set target of 201633 houses.
The Panchs and Sarpanchs have been assured that the people who have been left out will be included in the list but for the past one year no head way has been made in this regard and the long wait of the people continues.
Many people in J&K were expecting that situation will change after August 5, 2019—when the Centre announced its decision to abrogate J&K’s special status and bifurcated it into two union territories but the administration has not been able to live upto the expectations of the common people. The officials will have to exert to make things work otherwise J&K government achieving the stipulated target looks unachievable. |
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