The State government has decided to order a comprehensive probe into the alleged irregularities that took place in the Indiramma housing scheme launched by the previous Congress regime.
The State Cabinet which met here on Saturday discussed the issue threadbare and decided to constitute a House Committee to probe into the irregularities. “The terms and conditions as well as the name of the chairman of the panel will be announced soon,” Labour Minister K. Atchannaidu said. He said the Cabinet Sub-committee constituted to review the issue had identified misappropriation to the tune of Rs. 5,500 crore in the Indiramma housing scheme.
The irregularities in the scheme were so glaring that there was no clarity about the beneficiaries relating to 15 lakh out of the 41 lakh houses proposed under the scheme. “There is no identity of the beneficiaries, but bills for the construction of these houses had been claimed from the government,” he said. These lapses came to the fore when the government initiated steps for geo-tagging the houses with the help of the Aadhaar numbers of the beneficiaries.
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There were multiple houses sanctioned to single beneficiary in some cases and the genuine beneficiaries did not get the houses.