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Utilisation of Central funds

2017

UP slow in seeking funds to house poor: Centre, Feb 23, 2017: The Times of India



State of housing in BIMARU states, state-wise; UP slow in seeking funds to house poor: Centre, Feb 23, 2017: The Times of India

Challenging CM Akhilesh Yadav's development claims, the Centre has said UP has been one of the slowest in submitting proposals for housing for the poor despite having the highest shortfall.

“UP accounts for nearly 16% of the national housing shortage but the state submitted only 11,286 proposals. The Centre has approved them but these are a fraction of the shortage of 30.7 lakh houses in the state,“ urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu.

Its record of submissions is also the least among the four socalled BIMARU states. “Smaller states like Nagaland and Mizoram have got more houses sanctioned than UP under the PM Awas Yojna,“ he said.

Naidu's comments come amid a heated poll battle where BJP and SP-Congress are slugging it out with Akhilesh taking on PM Modi's attack that UP's development was both stunted and biased in favour of certain communities.

Naidu said the SP government had sent the proposals close to the election. “It is astonishing that the UP government did not send any proposals for long. We wrote 14 let ters seeking proposals. I also wrote to the CM. But still no result,“ Naidu said.

He said the state had been equally selective in power generation data and had for some time now stopped providing data on power cuts. “Imagine UP seeking and getting only Rs 384 crore out of the total Rs 25,819 crore. Isn't it plain and simple injustice to the poor of UP,“ Naidu asked.