AP CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy initiates week-long programme to distribute house-site pattas in Amaravati

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— CMO Andhra Pradesh (@AndhraPradeshCM) May 26, 2023

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Geotagging to be completed

He said basic amenities have been created in the layouts and that geo-tagging would be completed by 8 July.

“The beneficiaries will have three options for the construction of houses. For those who want to construct their own houses, the government would credit their bank accounts with ₹1.8 lakh. The second option is to avail the transfer into their bank accounts for the entire labour cost. The government will supply bricks free of cost and steel, cement, and door frames on subsidy. The material would be of high quality. Finally, if the beneficiary wants the government to do the entire construction, it would readily do it with a smile,” he said.

Describing the distribution of houses sites as the victory of the people, he wondered how could the opposition party stoop to the level of fighting legal battles opposing the noble programme.

“This is the victory of the poor. The government had fought in the Supreme Court on your behalf for the distribution of lands to you,” he said.

The chief minister said it was for the first time in the country that a government had fought legal battles for distributing land to the poor, foiling the attempts of those who wanted to deny the benefit to them.

Each house valued ₹7-10 lakh

“Each house site that the government is allotting is valued at ₹7-10 lakh. The value of the entire land being given as house sites would work out to be ₹2-3 lakh crore. They would be registered in the name of the female head of each family,” he said.

“After the distribution of the house sites, Amaravati would truly become ours. These house site pattas are not just documents conferring ownership rights but they represent the social justice that the government rendered to them,” he added.

The chief minister said that the government had also allotted 5,000 houses constructed by Andhra Pradesh Township and Infrastructure Development Corporation (APTIDCO) to the beneficiaries.

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Slams Naidu

Tearing into TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu for creating too many impediments in the effort to distribute house sites to the poor, he described him as one who is worse than Narakasura.

“We can even trust Narakasura but not Naidu,” he said, adding that a “band of dacoits” under the leadership of Naidu had looted the state when he was in power.

He said that in the past Naidu had released a manifesto with 600 promises but, after coming to power, he let everyone down by not implementing them.

Now that the elections are nearing, he would come out with another manifesto to pull the wool over the eyes of the people, he said, apparently keeping in mind the two-day Mahanadu of the TDP beginning Saturday at Rajahmundry.

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— CMO Andhra Pradesh (@AndhraPradeshCM) May 26, 2023

‘Treated manifesto as a holy book’

The chief minister said that his government, even during the traumatic days of Covid-19 had distributed 30 lakh house site pattas to the deserving beneficiaries.

“We have kept all the promises made in the charter of navaratnas. We treated our manifesto as Bahgavat Gita, Bible and Koran. In these four years, without giving any scope for corruption, we had reached the benefits of the welfare schemes to the targeted beneficiaries. We have transferred ₹2.11 lakh crore to the beneficiaries under various schemes through DBT. If non-DBT payments are included, the figure would go up to ₹3 lakh crore, he said.

He said that at present there was no conflict between castes.

“What is happening now is a class war. It is a clash between the haves and have-nots. Feudal forces are swooping on the poor and vulnerable sections. If we want to distribute house site pattas to the poor, these feudal lords oppose it, arguing that it would result in social imbalance,” Jagan Mohan Reddy said.