Beneficiaries to be finalised at Gram Sabha meetings
As many as 2,094 beneficiaries from below poverty line
(BPL) families are being allotted the Chief Minister’s Solar Powered
Green Houses in all the 10 panchayat unions in the district, Collector
Pooja Kulkarni said here on Tuesday.
Addressing
reporters, she said that of the target of 2,104 houses, 2,009 green
houses fitted with Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) panels were completed in the
previous financial year (2011-12) at Rs. 31 crore.
During the current year, the government had fixed a target to allot 2,094 houses to the BPL families in the district.
Though
work was in progress, some of the houses were already built by the
beneficiaries with the funds allocated by the government machinery as
per the specification.
The government was extending
Rs. 1.50 lakh per house for construction and Rs. 30,000 for providing
SPV panel through Tamil Nadu Energy Development Corporation (TEDA) for
the fixed plinth area of 300 square feet.
S.
Jagidshaw, wife a daily wager, completed her house with the help of the
government fund in Ganesh Nagar at Erraalli Panchayat under the
Kaveripattinam Panchayat Union. She said that her dream to live in a
concrete house was fulfilled through the scheme. She has also developed a
kitchen garden and is planning to grow medicinal plants.
The
TEDA had commenced commissioning of SPV panels on the rooftops of the
houses, said J. Dhanasekaran, project director, District Rural
Development Agency.
He said the beneficiaries had
been identified at the rate of one per cent from Scheduled Tribes
community, 29 per cent from Scheduled Castes and the remaining 70 per
cent for Backward Classes and others. Recently, the State Government
issued a GO to allot 3 per cent of the houses to differently-abled
persons in all the panchayats.
The government had
instructed all the panchayats to prepare beneficiraies' list that will
be finalised at the Gram Sabha meetings.
