Khargone: PMAY house too bulldozed

Khargone (MP): A house constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana on government land was demolished in Khargone city of Madhya Pradesh following violence on Ram Navami.

The house was supposed to be built somewhere else and it was being used for other than residential purposes, an official claimed on Tuesday, following reports that a house under PMAY was demolished in the action against those involved in the violence.

The house, located on Birla Marg in Khaskhaswadi area, belonged to Hasina Fakhroo (60).

It was demolished on Monday by local authorities during a drive against ‘illegal’ properties allegedly belonging to those involved in the stone-pelting and other forms of violence that broke out during a Ram Navami procession the day before.

Chief Municipal Officer Priyanka Patel said the house was supposed to come up somewhere else.

“Under PMAY, houses are meant for residential purposes, but when the municipal team went in, it found it was being used for some other purpose. Nobody was there.

“They constructed the house on government land while they had got approval under PMAY for house at a different place. A case of encroachment was going on in the tehsil court. The tehsildar had issued orders for its removal,” Patel added.

Fakhroo, the house owner, told reporters that her family was living on the same plot of land in a kuccha house before they became beneficiaries of PMAY. – PTI