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‘Genuine beneficiaries left out from Indiramma’

Special Correspondent

Raghavulu lists lapses detected in a survey by CPI (M)

HYDERABAD: Reiterating his party’s demand for constituting a mechanism to look into complaints about implementation of Indiramma housing programme, CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu feared that officials had been instructed not to include genuine poor in the list of beneficiaries.

The fact that more than 40 per cent of the eligible poor were left out showed that the omission was deliberate. “Although the list of genuine beneficiaries were given to officials in all the districts, a majority of the poor have been left out of the scheme,” Mr. Raghavulu said.

Corrupt practices

In a letter addressed to Housing Minister Botcha Satyanarayana, he alleged that the scheme had turned out to be a source of income generation for ‘political middlemen’ and corrupt people who were taking commissions from the poor. Coupled with this was the pressure by ruling party leaders to include ineligible persons in the lists that was defeating the essential purpose of the programme.

Listing out the lapses that showed up in a survey conducted by the CPI (M), Mr. Raghavulu said while the party was trying to bring the irregularities to the notice of the Government, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and his Cabinet colleagues were attributing motives to it. There was still time to rectify the lapses and the Government should order a comprehensive re-survey of the beneficiaries to ensure that genuine poor were not deprived of the benefits, he added.

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