Telangana Housing Schemes: Middlemen intensify efforts

Khammam: The double bedroom housing scheme being implemented by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti government is being lured by many people including middlemen, beneficiaries in other housing schemes and second-rung leaders of various political parties.

As the double bedroom houses are different from the other housing schemes, efforts are on by the middlemen to get these houses.

Earlier, the previous government was used to provide Indiramma Housing to the poor people in urban and rural areas. Under this scheme, government provides Rs 45,000 to Rs 70,000 in rural areas and from Rs 55,000 to Rs 80,000 in urban areas for the poor people from the upper casts and backward classes and Rs 1.2 lakh in urban and rural areas to the poor people among the SC and ST categories.

But, the new double bedroom scheme is high cost one and cost of the each house is around Rs 5.04 lakh of 560 feet double bedroom house in districts. It is Rs 5.30 lakh in the limits of municipal corporations and they will have one kitchen, two toilets, a common hall and two bedrooms.

The status of the poor who will get these 2BHK will be elevated as middle class because of its high cost. K. Appa Rao, a Left party leader said that it is not possible to get these to the poor and second-rung leaders of various political parties including ruling party would grab it under the guise of poor.

“There is every chance of coming benami names to obtain these houses by following various tactics. I knew a person obtained a house in Rajiv Swagriha, Indiramma house and a house site,” he said.

Interestingly, some of the naïve people, who are transferring their houses and lands to the other persons, are planning to apply for 2BHK by claiming that they are very poor and no house and no piece of land was there on their name. Ruling party leaders started parleys to sanction these houses to their followers by taking some money from them.