A city-level slum network meeting on Monday took stock of the regularisation of house-sites and housing under Prime Minister’s Awaas Yojana in 20 slums, here on Monday.
Status report
Former Union Energy Secretary E.A.S. Sarma interacted with the slum-dwellers and wanted the organisers to prepare a status report for each slum to take up the issue with the Collector and the Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development.
The meeting was organised by Association for Urban and Tribal Development (AUTD) with the assistance of Samata, an NGO and Indo-Global Social Service Society.
According to AUTD secretary Pragada Vasu, in seven of the 20 slums none got regularisation pattas (title deeds) and those at Muslim Colony and Ratnagiri Hill Colony were denied regularisation with a VUDA Master Plan road proposed.
At Gandhinagar in Ward 5, 20 of the 120 living there, 115 of the 120 at Sadguru Sainath Colony, 400 of the 595 at BNR Nagar, 48 of the 160 at Jogaraonagar, 88 of Girija Colony at Gajuwaka, 74 of the 200 at Proyadarshini Colony, 30 of the 40 at Eklavya Colony at Pendurti got pattas.
The residents of Ramamurthypantulupeta under the flyover have been sanctioned JNNURM houses at Madina Baugh.
Twenty each at Gandhinagar and Priyadarshini Colony got PMAY houses.
