- Disappointment at the hands of the beneficiary due to the rounds of government offices
Yavatmal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced in his election campaign to get a house for all in 2022, but for years the beneficiaries are being deprived of the schemes of other housing benefits including the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Due to non-availability of housing scheme to poor, needy families in the district including Yavatmal city, this scheme seems to be divided.
In Yavatmal city, since 2016 till now, 3556 beneficiaries are pursuing their dream of becoming a house, but their residence approval file is getting dusty in government offices. Yavatmal Municipality is keeping the housing benefit scheme pending by giving information about administrative and funding problems in giving housing benefits to these beneficiaries.
Despite the availability of funds by the Central Government, the administration and the municipality are deliberately neglecting in running the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Due to which the poor citizens, who are eligible under this scheme, have to live in dilapidated houses, huts for many years. For the past many years, these beneficiary families have to live through hardships in rainy and cold weather.
After the hardships caused in the past rains, now thousands of families have to spend days in their kutcha houses in the cold, but in spite of this, no action is being taken on the housing benefits at the government level, due to which these beneficiaries are providing them with immediate benefits. Demand is being made to give it. It is said that every day many beneficiaries make rounds in Yavatmal municipality, but on their demand, the officers and employees of the municipality are ignoring them.
In the four schemes related to Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, poor, needy citizens are given houses by making them, there are a large number of beneficiaries who have been proved eligible in these schemes. But even the measurements of these houses have not been done by the municipality. Prior to this, till Diwali 2021, the beneficiary applicants of the municipal area will get houses from these schemes, such information was given by the municipal administration, but work has not been started in this regard so far.
Due to which thousands of eligible beneficiaries have become destitute by dreaming of pucca houses. Phukat Nagar, Rameshwar Nagar, Lohara, Wagahpur, Pimpalgaon, many areas of Pandharkawada Marg, Bhosa and many other areas are the beneficiary citizens, who have not got the benefit of housing since the year 2016.