Jagan Builds Only 823 Houses in 3.5 Yrs, says Centre

The YCP government proclaims to be a pro-poor dispensation and Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy boasts of the ‘Pedalandariki Illu’ scheme taken up as a prestigious project by him under Navaratnalu. As part of it, large swathes of land was acquired by the state government at exorbitant prices even as the Opposition parties alleged corruption in the process.

Meanwhile, the facts of the Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY-Grameen), another housing project funded by the Centre, reveal something contrary to the claims of the YCP government.

In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the Centre submitted details of the Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY- Grameen) programme which mentioned that the target allocated for Andhra Pradesh was 2,56,270 houses while only 47,525 houses were completed so far. As many as 2,08,745 houses need to be completed under the project.

The Centre also presented the figures of houses completed during the last three years which showed that only 5 houses were built in 2019-2020 while no houses in the consecutive two years. It was only in 2022-23 that over 818 houses were constructed in the state.

The TDP government built around 47,000 houses during its rule which itself was considered a dismal figure but the YCP government constructed even less, a meagre 823 in the last 3.5 years.

During the same period, other states built several houses under the programme but the YCP government had not gone for new constructions in a large-scale and it is being said that there were no funds. This leads to doubts over what could have happened to all the funds released by the Centre towards the housing project.

On the other hand, the YCP government is building several houses in YSR Jagananna Colonies on the land acquired under Pedalandariki Illu, for which the Centre contributes Rs 1.80 lakh to each house while the state government sanctions a meagre Rs 30,000. The BJP lashed out at the YCP government for tagging Jagan’s name and calling them Jagananna Colonies even while the Centre sanctions a major portion of the fund.