Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday demanded 15 lakh houses under PMAY for the people affected of tribal districts and KBK by cyclonic storm Fani of 2019. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi CM Naveen sought sanction 1.84 Lakh PMAY-G (Special) houses to the cyclone FANI affected families and 13 lakh houses for non Fani affected tribal districts and KBK districts.
He also requested to migrate 5.09 Lakh data from the RH portal to PWL of PMAY(G) and to allow opening of Awaas+ window for the entire state for a period of one month.
Thanking the Prime Minister for sanctioning 8.17 Lakh PMAY(G) houses to Odisha, Mr Patnaik drew his attention to the sufferings of many families of KBK and tribal dominated districts of the State and also the families who have lost their houses in cyclone FANI
The Chief Minister said the Union Ministry of Rural Development, allowed identification of eligible left out families through Awaas+ by March 7, 2019. But the State could identify only 35,000 families within this stipulated period because of pre-occupation of Government machinery in preparatory work for General Elections-2019, network connectivity issues and LWE violence in some pockets of State.
When MoRD opened Awaas+ window for only the 14 districts affected by cyclone FANI, another 7.87 Lakh families were identified through State developed RH portal.
It was found 5.09 Lakh families in 16 districts predominantly tribal districts and KBK districts of the state not affected by cyclone FANI are also eligible.
The Chief Minister said these families may be covered against PMAY(G) target by migrating their data from RH portal to PWL of PMAY(G).
Reminding Prime Minister’s commitment during May 2019 to allot 5 Lakh PMAY-G (Special) houses to FANI affected families, Mr Patnaik said that there are 1.84 Lakh families whose houses got damaged by cyclone FANI and they are not otherwise entitled for availing normal PMAY(G) houses.
These families may be considered for PMAY-G (Special) houses waiving the pre-condition of their names to be in PWL of PMAY (G), Mr. Patnaik said. He further said that there might be some more eligible families left out during survey through Awaas+ and RH portal.
