Summary:
Recently, the AMC passed a resolution to name nine housing schemes, built under CM’s Awas Yojana, after Hindu saints or important historical characters. Their resolution to name Gota housing scheme, constructed under the Chief Minister’s Awas Yojana, ‘Padmavati’ has once again created a buzz. AMC’s Housing Committee Chairman Bipin Patel, when asked to comment on the rationale behind the naming of housing schemes, said: “We keep Indian tradition and mythology in the forefront while naming the housing schemes. “People from different religions and communities live in state-government building housing schemes. The committee chairman and members sit together and fix the names.”Jigar Chaudhary, a student, felt that names of housing schemes should be religion and community neutral..