Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY) the flagship programme for Rural Housing (since 1985-86) to help build or upgrade homes to the BPl families are still in the grip of the corrupt system.
According to the district administration’s official report, the construction works of at least 3500 houses under IAY are still pending in Bokaro district. ‘BDOs of all blocks has been directed to complete the construction works anyhow by 30 November this year’, informed a district administrative official.
“Gomia, Paterwar and Chandankiyar blocks of the district are among the top in the list where the maximum number of houses (under IAY) are still pending”, added the official.
Meanwhile, thousands of IAY are still in incomplete condition when the construction work was kicked-off while several others crumbled since from the inception of Jharkhand, he said.
According to the norms, the construction work should be completed within the period of six months when the work was kicked-off, officials informed.
Under the Prime Minister Housing Scheme at least 7669 needy families will get their houses in this current financial year (2016-17), informed the official. “The beneficiaries would be listed out on the basis of Socio-Economic census-2011”, he added.