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The promise of two-bed room house for the poor by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has come handy for middlemen who are selling application forms and are allegedly collecting “booking amount” from gullible people. For the past three weeks there has been increasing number of hopefuls who have been thronging the Hyderabad collectorate to submit applications for the 2BHK- low cost housing scheme, a poll promise of the TRS.
Application costs 10 and if one shells out 10,000 then the allotment of the house is confirmed. This is the word that is going around in various slums regarding the 2BHK low-cost housing scheme by the TS government. But the irony is that the procedurals haven’t been chalked out and the officials are yet to receive guidelines.
Hyderabad: The promise of two-bed room house for the poor by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has come handy for middlemen who are selling application forms and are allegedly collecting “booking amount” from gullible people. For the past three weeks there has been increasing number of hopefuls who have been thronging the Hyderabad collectorate to submit applications for the 2BHK- low cost housing scheme, a poll promise of the TRS.
However, the catch here is that the collectorate officials are yet to receive guidelines and directives regarding the application process. People, who are left in limbo are unaware of the situation and are falling prey to middlemen, who are earning a quick buck. For the past month, the middlemen, who have reportedly formed a syndicate of sorts, have been selling applications for the housing scheme for Rs 10 and Rs 20 in various parts of the city.
On Monday, thousands of people thronged the collectorate and even jumped over barricades to submit the applications. “There is a word going around in our basti that applications have to be submitted at the collectorate for the 2BHK housing scheme. We bought applications each at Rs 10,” informed Venkatamma, a resident of Nazeerbagh, Kacheguda. Other basti dwellers too informed of a similar procedure.
Reportedly, some people have paid up to Rs 10,000 to middlemen, who have promised sure shot allotment of houses. Responding to widespread rumours, Hyderabad Collector K Nirmala appealed to the people to refrain from paying huge sums to middlemen. “It was brought to our notice that middlemen are fleecing people regarding the applications for low cost housing scheme.
I wish to make it clear that currently we are not accepting any applications for the housing scheme. The procedurals for the scheme are being prepared and the applications process will only start when we receive directions from the government. We are in fact taking applications for regularisation scheme,” Nirmala said.
By:Aditya Parankusam
