Owaisi Urges Government to Deliver on Indiramma Housing Promise

Hyderabad: AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi suggested that the state government consider implementing measures from the Mumbai slum rehabilitation scheme while implementing the Indiramma housing plan.

He was speaking at a review meeting chaired by minister Ponnam Prabhakar to prepare the ground for distribution of ration cards and Indiramma houses on January 26.

Owaisi said there was immense pressure from Indiramma housing applicants at the Praja Palana programmes but MLAs Danam Nagender and T. Prakash Goud were not speaking about them.

“People enthusiastically applied for schemes in the hope that they will become beneficiaries. Now they are behind us,” said Owaisi.

Owaisi said that unless measures were taken to address the aspirations of the applicants, the housing scheme would turn into a political hurdle for the Congress in the future. He said he was aware of the the financial crunch but the scheme had to be implemented as promised.

Owaisi stated that out of 5.27 lakh Indiramma housing applicants from Hyderabad, only 9,213 had their own land. He also urged the minister to be liberal while issuing while ration cards.