Naveen Patnaik wrote a letter to PM Modi, demanding more houses for Odisha under PMAY-G. Bhubaneswar News – Times of India

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on Saturday Narendra Modi Demand for 1.84 lakh houses for cyclone Fani affected families and 13 lakh for tribal and others from Koraput-Balangir-Kalahandi (KBK) districts Pradhan Mantri take care Yojna-Gramin (PMAY-G).
In his letter, Naveen drew the attention of the Prime Minister to the problems faced by the families of KBK and tribal-dominated districts and the families who lost their homes in the cyclone. fan Which came to the state in May 2019.
As the Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) allowed the states to identify the remaining families eligible under PMAY-G through the Awas Plus portal till March 7, 2019, the Chief Minister said that the states would only Can identify 35,000 families. , He said that the government machinery at that time was busy with the preparation work for General Elections 2019, network connectivity issues and Maoist-violence in some parts of the state.
“When MoRD opened the Housing Plus window for only 14 districts affected by Cyclone Fani, another 7.87 lakh families were identified. The state government also identified through the rural housing portal developed by the state and found 5.09 lakh eligible families in the remaining 16 districts, which were not affected by Fani,” the chief minister said.
Naveen requested to cover these 13 lakh families under the Centre’s rural housing scheme by transferring them to the Permanent Waiting List (PWL) of PMAY-G from the state-developed RH portal.
Reminding the Prime Minister of his commitment to allot five lakh PMAY-G houses under the special allocation to Fano affected families in May 2019, Naveen said that there are 1.84 lakh families whose houses have been damaged by the fan and they would otherwise be affected by it. are not entitled. Benefiting from normal PMAY(G) houses.
“These families can be considered for special allotment under PMAY-G houses subject to the pre-condition of their names being in the PWL of PMAY-G,” Naveen said.
Even as the rural development ministry rejected the state government’s demand, the chief minister also sought Modi’s intervention for a month to open the housing plus window for the entire state, so that the data of eligible households could be transferred. to wait for the accommodation. PMAY-G. latest Said that this step would be a step towards securing shelter security for all.
of BJD Rajya Sabha Member sammit patra Recently this issue was also raised in Parliament.

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