Pinjore: 13 years on, 24 houses for poor remain unallotted

                Panchkula: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini recently announced plans to build 5 lakh houses for the poor, but ironically, 24 double-storeyed houses built under a govt 
housing scheme on Bitna Road in Pinjore in 2012 remain unallotted to date.
These vacant 411-sq ft houses, accompanied with a community centre, park, and temple, have in fact started to crumble. Over these years, govt after govt passed, but the facility, 
which could have been utilised by the homeless, continues to lie unused.
The project, Adarsh Pradarshan Awasiya Yojana, was undertaken by the ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation. The foundation stone of the project was laid by the then 
minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation, Kumari Selja, in 2009, and subsequently, the construction was completed in 2012.
Sources said the houses could not be allotted as govts failed to form a committee that was to take applications from the prospective and eligible candidates. There was a panel at the 
time of the construction of the premises, but it later got dissolved. No decision was taken thereafter to appoint new committee members and allot the houses to the needy persons.
"Due to non-allotment, the houses are now turning into ruins. Owing to the negligence of the govt and administration, the govt is losing crores of rupees. In the year 2015, I gave a 
memorandum to the chief minister and the then deputy commissioner Panchkula, Vivek Atre, after which in 2015, the appropriate officer called a meeting of the officials and made a 
policy to allocate 24 houses built under the Adarsh Performance Housing Scheme. But to date, that policy has not been implemented, so those houses have not been allotted to the 
poor. They should allocate 24 houses to the poor as soon as possible," said Vijay Bansal, president of Shivalik Vikas Manch.
The Pinjore-based advocate, who has been raising this issue with different authorities all these years, recently met with urban local bodies department director general Dr Yashpal 
Yadav, requesting him to give possession of 100-100 yard plots given to the poor under the Mahatma Gandhi Housing Scheme to the beneficiaries, regularise irregular colonies, fix 
faulty street lights soon, and allot these 24 houses built for the poor to the poor soon.


Source : Times of India