Officials of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said on Friday that five former Union ministers, who are still occupying bungalows above their authority, have expressed their desire to vacate government accommodation in the national capital. He said that former Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, who was recently given eviction notice by Directorate of Estates, has also informed that he will vacate the bungalow at 27, Safdarjung Road.
According to officials, Pokhriyal’s bungalow has been allotted to Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. Some other former ministers, such as Prakash Javadekar and Harsh Vardhan, have already told the ministry that they will vacate their respective official bungalows.
“They will soon be shifted to their entitled category (Type VII bungalow),” an official said. PTI, The official said that there were about five types of eighth bungalows currently being used by former ministers, adding that all of them had expressed their desire to vacate them.
On Friday, the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry completed the eviction process of Chirag Paswan from the 12 Janpath bungalow allotted to his late father Ram Vilas Paswan in 1990. Talking about housing rules for ministers and MPs, another senior union official in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said that the eighth type of bungalows were allotted to Union ministers and senior members of the judiciary.
Former ministers are usually entitled to type VII accommodation. “Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha also have their own housing committees which allot government accommodation to their members from their own quota. There are also some sort of eighth bungalows with them (Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha housing committees), but generally MPs are given bungalows below class eight,” said an official.
The official said there was a cabinet committee on the residence which had the power to allot a government bungalow to a “private person” on security grounds and other reasons. In July 2020, senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was asked by Sangh Awas and Urban. The affairs ministry vacated his official residence after the Center withdrew the SPG security cover.
“Those who get Special Protection Group (SPG) protection are entitled to government bungalows. Once their such security cover is withdrawn, they will have to leave their accommodation facility,” the official said.
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