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Guidelines for Indira Awaz Yojana waiting list ready

Special Correspondent

Kozhikode: The State government has issued guidelines for preparing a waiting list of beneficiaries of the Centrally sponsored housing scheme Indira Awas Yojana in a time-bound manner and getting it approved by the grama sabhas.

Separate draft priority lists of Scheduled communities and others are to be prepared for every panchayat ward. The family statistics are to be prepared after studies by Kudumbasree Ayalkoottams (neighbourhood groups).

Each family should then be given weightage on the basis of norms approved by the government. The priority lists of families should be prepared on the basis of the marks received by them. The norms are those without houses and those living in huts, leaf- or grass-thatched houses or partially completed or dilapidated houses.

The lists should contain the marks received by each family on the basis of the norms and the principle adopted for selection if more than one family receive the same marks. The Kudumbasree District Mission should hand over five copies of the ward-wise priority lists to the grama panchayats.

The government asked the grama panchayats to convene the grama sabhas between November 15 and 30 to approve the permanent waiting list.

The panchayats have been asked to give wide publicity to the decision to convene special grama sabha meetings and the norms and weightage for preparing the lists. The services of the panchayat members, ADS office-bearers, anganwadi workers, saksharatha preraks, SC/ST promoters and AEO/LVEOs should be utilised for the purpose. An official of the grama panchayat should be deputed as the coordinator of the grama sabha. The block and district panchayat members should be informed of the venue and time of the grama sabha meetings.

Ensuring transparency

The president, official designated for the purpose or ward member should explain the manner in which the priority lists were prepared at the grama sabha meetings to make the process of giving approval for them transparent. If there is any complaint, it should be submitted to the grama panchayat two days before the grama sabha meetings. The grama panchayats will have the discretion of referring such complaints to a subcommittee consisting of officials, representatives of neighbourhood groups and ADS office-bearers. The complaints should be considered before the grama sabha meetings. The priority lists which are finalised after changes should be read out and approved by the grama sabhas.

The panchayat-level final lists of the Scheduled communities and others cleared by the grama sabhas should then be approved by the grama panchayats. Only such lists will have validity. Once the panchayat-level lists come into existence, the ward-level lists will not have any validity. The guidelines also spell out what should be done after that, including the role of the block panchayats.

These lists will have a validity of five years for providing assistance from the yojana. The panchayats should ensure that 15 per cent of the physical targets go to religious minorities. The beneficiaries of this section should be selected every year on a priority basis from the general list (non SC/ST).

The grama panchayats should forward copies of the final lists to Project Director for the eradication or poverty in the district panchayat. These should be put up on the web site of the Union Rural Development Ministry.

Complaints, if any, about the final lists should be preferred within 10 days of their publication by the grama panchayats. They should be disposed of after enquiry within three weeks. Subcommittees of panchayat officials and CDS functionaries could be set up to look into them also.

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