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Thursday, Dec 30, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur

Officials miss housing scheme target

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, DEC. 29 . Faced with the possibility of not meeting the targets given to the district for the current year, the Housing Department has shouldered the responsibility of getting letters of sanction allotted to the legislators by following them, if necessary.

Against the target of 24,070 houses allotted to the district under all housing programmes for 2004-05, the achievement in this direction has been 11,840 houses which is less than half the set target.

According to officials, the legislators of Penukonda and Gorantla constituencies are yet to sanction their quota of houses of 500 each under the Rural Poor Housing Scheme (RPHS).

A total of 15,780 houses have been allotted to the district under RPHS for the year and 7,168 of them have been completed so far.

Sanction letters

While the legislator of Gorantla, P. Ravindra Reddy, is stated to be on foreign tour, the Penukonda legislator, P. Ravindra, is yet to identify his beneficiaries.

The letters of sanction from other legislators were also secured by work inspectors of the mandals concerned by following them during their visits.

The houses completed under other schemes so far are IAY-2,793; PMGY-354; Gruhini-319; Weavers-167; Fishermen-6; Dukan aur Makan-115; UPH-614 and Vambay-304. About 200 hoses allotted to the Kadiri Municipality under the Urban Poor Housing Scheme are also yet to be sanctioned.

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