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CPI (M) faults ‘Indiramma’

— PHOTO: K. V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR

Taking to the streets: Women protesting under the banner of CPI (M) against alleged irregularities in enumeration of beneficiaries for Indiramma housing scheme in Tirupati on Thursday.

TIRUPATI: The report on Indiramma scheme submitted by the Chittoor district unit of CPI (M) to the Joint Collector after conducting a ward-wise survey in all the 15 constituencies of the district was on predictable lines. The presentation of the report was preceded by a round-table which the party held at Chittoor on Thursday inviting representatives from parties like the TDP, BJP, CPI and the JD to elicit their views on the chinks and irregularities found in the implementation of the scheme .

The crux of the report obviously was that the enumeration of beneficiaries was fraught with irregularities and party bias. The report submitted by the party to the Joint Collector, Chittoor, Rajendra Prasad with copies to members of all the print and visual media has specifically highlighted the irregularities noticed in every constituency and cited as how in many cases the genuinely poor were ignored and how the affluent with ruling party links could make it to the list. The report disputed the District Collector’s statement that of 1,03,678 houses sanctioned to the district 80,000 were constructed. It asserted that only 10 per cent of the houses were completed. It also sought to show the yawning gap between the amount actually sanctioned and the prevailing construction cost which forced many beneficiaries to keep their hands off.

Following are some of the ‘ground realities’ and ‘glaring irregularities’ as shown in the CPI (M) report: In the Puttur municipality, of the 186 houses sanctioned 18 months ago, hardly 4 are completed and 22 are at different stages while remaining 166 have not started at all.

Of the 77 houses sanctioned to Kuravapalle village, 19 were benami, it alleged while many old houses were shown as Indiramma houses after a white wash.

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