No PMAY house for Nuapada destitute

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Tuesday, 14 August 2018 |  | NUAPADA


Urmila Bag of Khariar town in Nuapada district is a widow with three children.
She is homeless but cannot get a house under Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY-Urban) 
because she is landless.
She has taken shelter in a single-room mud house provided by a household in Ward Number 8 of Khariar NAC on rent of Rs 500 per month.
Urmila works as a maid servant in different houses and earns roughly around Rs  4,000 per month. “I have admitted my children in a Government primary school, otherwise it would have been difficult for me to provide them two square meals a day with such a meagre income,” said Urmila.
Her children, however, hardly get interested in their schooling, albeit the attraction of the MDM. Gayatri, the eldest one, reading in class VI sometimes stays home to cook food for the whole family when her two younger brothers abstain from school. Urmila owes about Rs  18,000 to her employers taken as advances at the time of her exigencies like for the treatment of her husband and funerals after his death.
“I need a piece  land and a house to stay, but who is there to support me,” she asked.
Urmila’s in-laws’ ancestors had landed properties, but the lands which provided them livelihood and social status were gradually alienated and the posterity relegated to destitution. “My husband used to say that his forefathers had land, but when I married him he had nothing.
He worked as a “Hemal” (loading and unloading of materials in truck) all his life and lost health due to hard work and alcohol that damaged his kidney and took his life,” added Urmila.
Although a destitute, she could not avail the financial support of Rs  20,000 under the National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) after the death of her husband as she was not in BPl list. “Her application for the widow pension has been forwarded to the district,” informed the official in charge of pension scheme of Khariar NAC.
The District Press Club has drawn attention of the Government in this regard. There are more than 30 such homeless and homesteadless families in Khariar town, who should be allotted homestead land and house. “We hope the Government would respond positively,” said secretary of District Press Club Tapan Dash.

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