Appeal after CAG report points to lapses in PMAY-G implementation Employees of the Kerala State Housing Board (KSHB) have appealed to the government to restore the Board to its traditional role of official house builder for the State, considering its track record and vast experience in the field.
The appeal came in the wake of a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that stated that Kerala missed out on nearly ₹200 crore in the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G), which was launched in April 2016 to provide ‘Housing for all’ by 2022.
The report stated that the State had lost Central government assistance of about ₹196 crore due to its failure to achieve physical and financial targets set by the Centre. It was found that there was deficient monitoring of the programme that aimed to provide houses to a total of 42,431 beneficiaries in rural areas.
COVID fallout: Despite government assurance, migrants in Odisha left in lurch
Sources said suspension of personal ledger (PL) accounts in many blocks including those which are prone to migration, has resulted in such a situation.
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BHUBANESWAR : Even as the State government urged migrant workers not to leave Odisha during lockdown and assured that it has enough livelihood options for them, the fact remains that non-payment to labourers in the government sector work has forced many to migrate to neighbouring states in search of jobs.
Sources said suspension of personal ledger (PL) accounts in many blocks including those which are prone to migration, has resulted in such a situation.
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Under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY-G), a flagship programme of the Government of India, 92% target of completion has been achieved in the 1st phase of the scheme i.e. from 2016-17 to 2018-19. The government is confident that all the houses in the Permanent Wait List (PWL) would be completed by the end of Amrut Mahtosava. As against the existing Permanent Wait List (PWL) identified using the SECC database of 2011, as on date 2.14 crore beneficiaries have been found to be eligible. Though this list consisted of 2.95 crore households initially, through multistage verification including at the time of sanction, many more households have been found ineligible, therefore, this list has been pared down to 2.14 Cr. and likely to go down further. Against this, 1.92 crores (90%) houses have been sanctioned and against the sanctioned houses, 1.36 crore (71%) houses have been completed. A target of 1 crore houses was set for completion in the 1st phase of the scheme i.e. from 2