The Affordable Housing Department of Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) proposed to seek approval before the Standing Committee to “bear the “suffering excess costs” associated with the economically weaker sector (EWS) housing scheme, rather than passing it on to the beneficiaries, it initiated a political storm in Vadodara.
Congress issued legal notices to civic agencies and also retroactively applied them to beneficiaries of UPA housing programs that were “ranspelled” to cover excess construction costs.
VMC Congress company Ami Ravat sent a legal notice to the Chairman of the Standing Committee last Friday saying that the citizen body “illegal” forces beneficiaries of essential services to pay for “delay or corruption of the VMC” to the Urban Poverty (BSUP), Rajiv Awas Yojana (Ray), Ray Yojana (Ray), Mukhawas Yojana (Mukhawas Yojana (Mgy)).
Ravat’s letter pointed out that the approval of the current proposal seeking for the benefit of the “poor” was seeking, “The fact is that the beneficiary’s contribution cannot exceed the provisions of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, and we have attracted the attention of the company in writing and board meetings when making such an illegal decision. Ultimately, the company realized that the housing plan was used for the weaker part of the economy, that the beneficiary’s contribution cannot exceed the provisions of the plan, and that the VMC should bear the excess costs…”
Ravat’s legal notice was a day of meeting in a day, discussing the proposal made by the affordable housing sector, trying to bear the “upgrade cost” of about Rs 1,822 crore to build 1,067 housing units of the EWS plan between 2021 and 2023 to build “all houses” for all Mantri of Pradhan Mantri B.C. The VMC proposed that civic groups had already built 2,802 units between 2018 and 2020, spending Rs 1,344 crore instead of “passing the burden” to beneficiaries.
Rawat said in the past essential services programmes for Urban Poverty (BSUP), Rajiv Awas Yojana (Ray) and Mukhyamantri Gruhawas Yojana (MGY), the VMC decided to “increase the beneficiaries’ contribution to the excess costs caused by delays caused by projects or corruption”. “The BSUP and Ray projects are “are an increase in the contribution of beneficiaries of crime and violation of government policies” from Rs 90,497 to Rs 2.63 crore,” Rawat said. “The beneficiaries of the BSUP and Ray scheme are actually slums, and the houses are slums, and they are allocated after rejecting the slums of the slums. These are the poorest families and the quality of the building is questionable. However, as the house was demolished, the beneficiaries were desperate and had no choice but to bear the overexpense, rather than the proposed home expenses. VMC illegally increases the contribution of beneficiaries…actually ransomware of homeless poor people. ”
Ravat said that like PMAY, the “poverty beneficiaries” of previous housing plans should also be “refunded” and decisions should be made based on “humanitarian reasons.” “I request that in these programs, the beneficiaries of poverty should not be punished for corruption and delays caused by VMC… (ultrasurplus) beneficiaries should be returned to the beneficiaries in the program, as many of them use loans to pay. I ask you and members of the Standing Committee to consider this requirement on humanitarian grounds, rather than forcing us to legally restore the contribution of such illegal beneficiaries.”
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On Friday, Chairman of the Standing Committee Dr. Sheetal Mistry, Ph.D., introductory to Mediapersons about the previous decision on the proposal, said the proposal from the affordable housing sector had been “delayed” for “further discussion.”
