Thiruvananthapuram: The ruling and opposition front has serious dissent on the number of houses that are approved and built under various housing schemes, including the mission of life, during the previous working period of the UDF and LDF governments, in assemblies on Wednesday.
Increasing the problem that is looking for a delay movement, MLA PK Basheer said the government claiming to ensure homes for all those who are worthy under the mission of life in the past five years, have failed in their promise and 9,20,261 fresh applications are waiting for the last half a year without publish even the final list of beneficiaries.
The Government of Self and Local Excise Minister MV Govindan said that the government completed 2,62,409 houses in the past five years, and after returning to power, he completed 13,600 houses under the mission of life.
Working at 87,000 houses is progressing and will be completed at the end of the financial year, and the government will complete a lakh house every year in the next four years, the Minister said.
He added that the last list of beneficiaries of the nine lakh-plus applications will be published in February next year.
The Minister compared the government’s achievements with the number of houses completed during the previous UDF government’s work period, stating that assembly records showed that the UDF government could only complete 3,724 houses.
The opposition leader VD Sathean objected to the ministerial claim, and said that the minister misleaded the Assembly and replies by the LDF government itself in the assembly last year said that 4,34,000 houses were built during 2015-16 to 2015-16 under several schemes.
He said that if the opposition cannot rely on the numbers given as the answer by the government itself, which documents they can rely on.
He said that the current government has actually returned to the decentralization concept by bringing all housing schemes under one mission, thus limiting the financial independence of the local body.
“You talk about decentralization and then seize the body’s body strength of the local government.
Local bodies must be mandator to ask 20% of their annual budget for housing under the mission of life, which means their financial independence has been restricted.
Also, they do not have a role in Settlement of beneficiaries, “he said.
Sathean said that the delay of 17 months in the processing process for houses under the mission of life means that housing schemes in the country have been jammed for a long time.
Chief of Pinarayi Minister Vijayan intervened at these points and stated that the housing scheme as a whole had not been stopped, but the delay was only in processing fresh applications.
Opposition members then carried out walkouts after speakers MB Rajesh refused to recognize the movement of delays on the basis of the explanation of the minister.