Indira Awaas Yojana: No shelter from corruption in Bihar
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Date: 20/09/2014

Our Community Correspondent, Ashok Paswan, reports from Lakhapur village, in Jamui district of Bihar, on the ineffectiveness of the Indira Awaas Yojana scheme there. The scheme is available to all those who hold BPL cards and live in mud houses, given that they have registered themselves under the scheme, but it is not as simple as that – applicants often have to wait for years in order to procure the funds allocated to them under the scheme. In Lakhanpur village, there are now 25 families waiting for the funds to be allocated even though they have been registered as beneficiaries of the scheme for a long time. It is alleged that corruption is at the root of the missing funds in most of these cases.

CALL TO ACTION: Call Mr. Arunkumar Sinha, the Block Development Officer for Jamui district, on +91-9431818868, and demand that registered beneficiaries receive the funds due to them at the soonest.