Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to open the window of Aawaas+ Mobile App for entire Odisha for a period of one month to migrate the data of identified households.
The CM had last year requested the PM to cover about 6 lakh identified eligible households under PMAY(G) in respect of the districts not affected by Cyclone Fani. “I would like to apprise that Aawaas+ window was opened by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, only for 14 Cyclone FANI-affected districts for a period of one month. The process of identification could not be taken up in the remaining 16 districts not affected by Cyclone FANI. These are predominantly tribals-dominated districts and cover all the KBK areas. The State has identified the left-out eligible households in these districts through State-developed RH Portal observing the procedure similar to Aawaas+,” Patnaik said in his letter to Modi on Monday.
“In such a scenario, the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, may be directed to open the window of Aawaas+ Mobile App for the entire State of Odisha for a period of one month to migrate the data of identified eligible households to Aawaas+,” he added.