Thiruvananthapuram: This is the second time that a beneficiary, who was allotted a home at Kalladimugham under the BSUP scheme, had to depend on contributions to raise the beneficiary share. There are close to 40 BSUP beneficiaries who are yet to pay their share of Rs 37,000. Many others would not be part of BSUP or PMAY scheme because of the high beneficiary share. In the case of Bindu Asari, who could not contribute Rs 37,000, it was Mayor V.K. Prasanth who contacted Pratidhwani, a group of Technopark professionals, to help sponsor it. When asked if the corporation will seek the help of more private institutions raise the beneficiary share, the Mayor said that some might be able to find the money.
“In some cases, they may not be paying as our communication might not be reaching the beneficiaries. The corporation plans to reach out to them through newspaper advertising. If they still don’t turn up, we will have to revise the list,” he said. The number of beneficiaries for a Rs 3-lakh PMAY scheme is less than 20 in each ward. Now, the corporation is trying to include most of the homeless and landless people in the LIFE mission, according to welfare standing committee chairperson R. Geetha Gopal. “There was a Rs 6 lakh PMAY scheme for the landless, of whch Rs 4 lakh would be bank loan. But no bank was ready to give this amount,” she says.
