MF AHMAD
Daltonganj, Nov 24: Speed and momentum have now caught up with the PM Gramin Awas Yojana in Palamu. According to Palamu Deputy Commissioner Anjaneyulu Dodde, “A big fleet of 1,58,949 Awas under the PM Gramin Awas Yojana was dragging on between 2016 and 2022 and their completion in totality looked a distant probability.”
Notably, around 1,27,637 awas could be completed in these years but despite this, the pending construction of the awas was a big issue, said sources.
Moreover, 32,312 awas continue to be pending or under construction. Nevertheless, Palamu district saw a kind of bloom of completion of awas beginning this August.
DC Dodde said, “4,171 awas were completed in August. In September, it had a jump of 2,000 more as 6,667 awas were completed.”
He added that the speed and momentum of completion of awas under this Yojana continued in October where 3,933 awas were completed.
Moreover, November has so far seen the completion of 2,814 awas.
The DC reminded saying, “We are keeping a tab on beneficiaries prodding them to build and complete them before the administration is forced to invoke public demand recovery act locally known as Certificate Case.”
Sources said in just two months Palamu could see the completion of 10,600 awas which in fact is the annual target for the Awas under the Yojana of the Lohardaga district.
However, the DC warned everyone from the beneficiary to his team of officials saying there is no room for any complacency and strict monitoring of this Yojana has to be maintained at every level. The tempo must not be allowed to fall.
On being asked by lagatar24.com as to what ‘mantra’ (tactic) the Palamu administration has in the completion of the awas to which DC said, “We told the laggard awas beneficiaries to speed up or face Certificate Case and it worked out most astoundingly.”
There have been more than 1,000 certificate cases against the same number of the defaulter beneficiaries of PM Gramin Awas Yojana.
The Nilamber Pitamberpur block tops the list in having a large number of Certificate Cases in PM Awas Yojana the number is 782.
Likewise, Hussainabad block has 85 Certificate Cases, Parwa block 48, and Tarhassi block 36 and then its number gradually peters out in the remaining 16 or 17 blocks.
lagatar24.com carried out a survey for the delay in the completion of awas in this Yojana where comes 1,30,000 rupees from the government in 3 instalments besides the beneficiary to put in 95 Man-days worth 21,000 rupees for MGNRRGA.
The causative factors behind the long-drawn pendency of the Awas in this Yojana are the death of the beneficiary, dependent either a minor or woman not knowing how to go about, diversion of funds by the beneficiary like money for awas given on high interest to a borrower or losing government money in gambling or lottery.
Apart from these, migration of beneficiary to some other place inside the district or out of the state, disinclination and unwillingness to complete awas or already having a house and so not interested in having this awas are some factors as well.
The survey discovered land disputes as also one of the major causes of the delay in getting awas completed. Proper and thorough verification of the plot of land at which government fund to the tune of Rs 1,30,000 is going to be spent is not done in time as a result problem erupts right at the time of the laying of the foundation with the government money worth Rs 40,000 to the awas as the first of the 3 instalments.
Sources said the Palamu DDC Megha Bhardwaj and her team have done remarkable efforts to clear the backlog of the Awas in Palamu.
