Housing for all scheme: Most applications turned down

Bhatinda | Saturday | 18th February, 2017

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While for the housing scheme, the MCB has received 1,682 applications, of which 940 have been verified, 235 applications have been kept in waiting while others have been rejected. Of the 4,632 applications received in city, only 742 fulfil govt criteriaSukhmeet BhasinTribune News ServiceBathinda, February 17A large number of applications for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna-Housing for All by 2022 scheme have been rejected during verification by the state government. MCB official claims that applications have been rejected as they don’t fulfil the government criteria —some don’t have Aadhaar card while others don’t have required details. The remaining 3,890 applications have been rejected. As many as 300 households have been included for relocation and Rs 6 lakh will be spent on each household..