Burdwan at top in Rural Housing, IAY and committed to complete houses by March 2013

Readers may recall my earlier posts in November 2012 when performance of the district at the time of claim for next installment for IAY was published. I am reproducing the same once more for recalling the position.

"Burdwan claims 2nd instalment of Rural Housing IAY, 14185 houses to BPL

IAY is the most important Rural Housing Scheme for BPL families in Rural areas which provides pucca house @ Rs 45000 per house plus sanitary laterines @ Rs 3200 from Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. In 2010-11 and 2011-12 years we constructed 25838 houses in 31 blocks.

• This year we sanctioned 14185 houses and released Rs 3193 lakhs out of which Rs 2740 lakhs has been utilised till September 2012.

• District will get another Rs 34 crores as 2nd instalment within this month as our claim has been accepted by Govt of India. 2nd instalment is released on utilisation of 60 % of the available funds."

Now, my attention has been drawn to the latest physical and financial reports circulated in the District Vigilance Monitoring Committee meeting where probably it is told that about 14747 houses sanctioned in 2012-13 and 6600 completed in 2012-13.

• It is clarified that 14747 number of houses have been sanctioned out of first installments of Central and State share released to district at the begining of financial year and subsequently district placed claims for next installments as reported herein.
• We got 2nd installment central share sanctioned on 25th December 2012 and funds credited in our accounts in January 2013 which has been released to bank accounts of beneficiaries through Blocks directly.
• It must be noted that IAY funds are released to BPL families in two equal installment of Rs 22500 each. Obviuosly, first installment of Rs 22500 was released to all 14747 beneficiaries between June to August 2013 and second and final installment is released now in January 2013 to complete the houses as per norms.
• Houses shown completed so far are certainly the houses completed in this year including ongoing works of last year. Some houses of current year must also have been completed but certainly we should not expect beneficiaries to complete the houses of current year without both the installments fully released to them.

Performance of the Burdwan district is one of the best in the State and among top few districts in the country. We are hopeful of completing all houses in next two months and may get addtional funds like previous year.