Genuine beneficiaries of Awas Yojana suffering in Budhal Assembly Segment: Manzoor Naik

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI 

SAYED ZAHID 

RAJOURI JUNE13:-‘Accusing Rural development department and  officials for the callous approach, senior BJP leader from Budhal Manzoor Naik on Tuesday alleged that thousands of deserving beneficiaries are getting deprived of the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in all the three blocks of Budhal Assembly Segment.

It is pertinent to mention here that the approximately sixteen thousand families in district Rajouri who belong to BPL and AAY categories are not able to avail benefits of PMAY Scheme due to survey errors conducted in 2017-18 by the concerned rural development department. As per sources, in the said survey, false and baseless details of these families were uploaded by the concerned departments officials which led to the rejection of these genuine beneficiaries.

Manzoor Naik while quoting such cases gave the example of a person namely Des Raj, who belongs to Scheduled Caste community & AAY category. Naik said that Des Raj’s name is in the ineligible people’s list as the concerned departments survey officials mentioned that Des Raj is owning 5 acres of irrigated land in his name which is false and far away from reality and sheer injustice to this beneficiary.

Pertinently, Several beneficiaries had approached the authorities concerned for the redress of their genuine grievance but have been deprived of the benefits of the housing schemes, Sarpanch Shabir Kamlak Said.

In such circumstances, many people are forced to live in Kacha Houses which often fall to natural calamities.

Manzoor Naik while addressing the media persons lambasted the rural development officials and said that people eligible for the housing units under the scheme have been left out of it due to the incompetency and non seriousness of the concerned departments officials.

“It is highly unfortunate that the deserving people including the widows, destitute have been left out of the PMAY. As a result of this they are suffering like anything with no justice in sight for them, Naik added.

Naik along with other senior BJP leadership of the area including Mandal Pardhan Nazir Mohd Sarpanch, Mohd Shabir Aflatoon, Pandit Tilak Raj and others demanded an investigation into such irregularities and houses for the genuine beneficiaries.

Naik has appealed to the LG administration to initiate a process to add genuine families in the list of PMAY beneficiaries and allot them houses at the earliest as these left out genuine beneficiaries are suffering for the last four years. Naik further commented that an error free list should be prepared by the concerned department with utmost sincerity so that the eligible left out beneficiaries shall be benefitted and empowered which is the prime motive of BJP government at centre.
Others present were Nazir Sarpanch, Shabir Sarpanch, Pandit Tilak Raj, Raj Mohd, Des Raj, Mohd Yousaf, Jagan Nath, Tara Mani, Malkan and others.