The Ballari Zilla Panchayat (ZP) will launch a special campaign to provide shelter for the homeless and sites for the landless along the lines of a campaign undertaken to motivate people to get individual toilets constructed.
The ZP’s campaign will begin from November 14 and go on till November 21 in all the villages in the district. District and taluk-level officials would be made nodal officers to ensure it is successful. Homeless and landless people can submit their applications during the campaign.
A decision to this effect was taken at the monthly meeting to review the progress of implementation of the Karnataka Development Programmes (KDP) on Monday to ensure transparency in distribution of houses and sites.
K.V. Rajendra, CEO, directed officials to create awareness about the campaign and help the illiterate in filling up applications. He also said that special gram sabhas in all villages would be organised on November 29 when the nodal officers would read out the names of the applicants and prepare a list of eligible ones based on which houses and sites would be allotted.
He also clarified that there was no target fixed for allotting houses for Scheduled Castes and Tribes and wanted the officials to ensure that none from these two communities would be deprived of the facility.
Meanwhile, Panchayat Development Officers and other officials should identify suitable government land and also private land and forward a proposal to initiate the acquisition.
