The government on Wednesday said that no outsider is being allotted the land in Jammu and Kashmir under PMAY (Grameen) scheme and the former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti has been making statements without having any understanding of the scheme and the revenue laws of J&K.
According to a Statement issued by Deptt of Rural Development & Panchayti Raj, J&K, “As government can not sanction house to some one who doesn’t have land, therefore in order to ensure housing for all, government has taken a policy decision to allot 5 marlas of land to these 2711 cases so that they can get houses. This is indicative of Government’s commitment to the poor.”
Therefore statement of Ms. Mehbooba Mufti that, government is allotting land to 2 lakh odd persons is factually incorrect and all statements made by her are without having any understanding of the PMAY scheme.
There are 2711 cases which are part of the 2018-19 provisional waiting list of houseless persons of J&K, who were debarred from having house, just because either they didn’t have land or the land they have is state/forest/any other category of land where construction is not permitted. Data being quoted by her is of Housing & urban affairs, while PMAYG scheme is of Ministry of Rural Development for rural areas of J&K. Data of PWL may be taken by anyone from Awassoft portal.
J&K Government is committed to serving poor and landless people who were deprived of basic amenities such as a roof over their head through reform measures.
