A day after Panchayati Raj Minister Pratap Jena announced about 20 lakh pucca houses to be provided to people living in thatched structures in three years, opposition BJP and BJD leaders were engaged in sparring over the issue on Sunday.
“The State Government has always made false claims regarding the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and deprived poor people of getting pucca houses,” alleged BJP State secretary Prithviraj Harichandan at a Press meet here.
Harichandan alleged that the State Government has not yet been able to prepare a list of eligible people for pucca houses. Out of its first list of 27,49,716 beneficiaries, 13,65,035 had been found ineligible.
He demanded that the Government make it public as to how many houses would be build under different
schemes of PMAY, Biju Pucca Ghar, Mineral Funda and Construction Worker’s Welfare Fund.
Reacting to the BJP, BJD spokesperson and MLA Pratap Deb said, “BJP leaders have been making such allegations for the last five years. While people have already given a befitting reply to them in the 2019 polls, they have not learnt anything from it. They should first tell people why the Union Government has slashed its share from 90:10 to 60:40 under the Awas Yojana.”
He also wanted to know how the BJP-led Union Government accepted the State’s list after coming to in 2014 if it was wrong.