Now, it's henchmen who decide who gets house

Some political leaders’ henchmen are preparing lists of the bogus beneficiaries for double bedroom houses (2BKH) to be allotted to poor and slum dwellers in the Adilabad district.

Adilabad’s revenue officials recently cancelled the pattas issued to the 191 house sites out of total 1,279 house sites after conducting a survey recently after many complaints were lodged in this regard.

These house sites had been allotted in 2013 under Indiramma phase –III under BPL families in 2013 and not having house in survey number 170 under Mavala Grampanchayat in Adilabad mandal.

According to sources, the Revenue officials conducted survey into only 890 house sites out of total allotted 1,279 and found 191 beneficiaries ineligible, officials could not found 194 beneficiaries who claimed that they were staying in rented houses.

Revenue officials found that more than 191 beneficiaries were ineligible as they were government employees to whom the government had already granted sites in the past, or they had their own houses elsewhere and were staying in the rented houses as they claimed.         

Here too, political leaders are alleged to have got their sidekicks to ensure that the persons who got the government lands and erected huts there were poor and are eligible for pattas so that they will get eligibility for the double bedroom houses. 

These men were showing the fake beneficiaries to be genuine to the revenue officials who were conducting their survey to identify the truly deserving in Bangaruguda village in Adilabad mandal where, on 1,200 plots, nearly 600 huts and some pucca houses came up on the occupied land.

Minister Jogu Ramanna promised the villagers to sanction 600 double bedroom houses to slum dwellers at Bangaruguda recently while laying a foundations stone to the Urdu medium school building.

Allegations are gathering strength to the effect that Revenue officials colluded with the henchmen in making the ineligible ‘eligible’ for this purpose.  

Demand has created for the house sites after Minister announcing the sanction of double bed rooms to the slum dwellers of Bangaruguda and revenue official’s plan to issue pattas to the already occupied house sites.

Aam Admi party leader Rasheed alleged that single person had occupied more than one plot, some of the people those were already got government house sites in the past again occupied plots on benami names at Bangaruguda.

He said, henchmen of political leaders were collecting Rs 30,000 – Rs 50,000 each from the bogus beneficiaries to ensure patta to house site in order to get double bedroom houses.