32k people homeless in the undivided districts!

• 17.91 lakh homeless families in the state

Mangaluru: Even though the government’s say that it is their aim to provide roof to everyone, there are 17.91 lakh homeless families and 6.47 lakh families without sites in the state.

As per the guidelines of the union government, the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Corporation was notified to identify those without a house or a site. The homeless and siteless within the limits of the GP submitted applications through the panchayat. Based on this, the corporation has created a list on the homeless and siteless. Till now, 24 lakh applications have come and since there is opportunity to submit the applications till Feb 28^th, the number of applicants will probably increase. All the applications submitted in the state will be sent to the central government. A survey will be conducted regarding the applicant’s factuality and needs. Later a final list of the eligible will be created. For any of the state and union government’ housing and site schemes, the beneficiaries will be selected based on this list.

Under the Prime Minister Awaz Yojna and as per the guidelines of the central government based on the 2011 social, financial and caste census, it was informed to identify the homeless as well as the siteless by Nov 30^th 2018 and enter the same on the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Corporation’s website. But, in order to make sure that the name of the eligible is not missed from the list and to remove the ineligible from the list, opportunity has been provided till Feb 28^th to conduct another inspection of the list. In case the name of the eligible is missed from the list, the PDO’s of the respective GP’s will be considered to be directly responsible, informed the corporation to all the GP’s through the ZP’s.

31,927 homeless in Karavali

As per the recorded applications submitted in Dakshina Kannada district so far, there are 17,234 homeless and 27,384 siteless. In Udupi, there are 14,693 homeless and 32,028 siteless. Altogether, there are 31,927 homeless in both the districts. These are the applications entered with the corporation, excluding the ineligible as well as those that need to be added. Later the final list will be created.

The districts with highest number do application submission presently

District	Homeless families
Belagavi	2,02,984
Kalburgi	1,56,030
Raichur	1,07,254
Vijayapura	93,751
Mandya	90,837

Siteless people in the district

Bengaluru City	40,368
Mysuru	40,850
Mandya	38,551
Chamarajanagara	37,612
Chikmagalur	32,656

Article by Dinesh Ira translated into English by Aaron Dmello