Champua: Housing schemes for the poor launched by both the state and the union government have not been of any help to Anjan Mohanta, a poverty-stricken physically challenged man from Adhangapal village under Jamudalaka panchayat in Champua block of Keonjhar district.
Despite running from pillar to post, Mohanta has been deprived of a house he well deserves under government schemes. He has been pleading with the concerned officials to take notice of his plight and provide him with a ‘pucca’ house since two years.
The sole breadwinner of his family, he has not been able to work owing to his medical condition after he met with an accident. According to Anjan, his family is dependent on his old father to pay the bills.
Even though he appealed the government for PMAY benefits for the first time back in May 29, 2017 and submitted necessary documents, no one has responded in two years.
When asked, Sarpanch of Jamudalaka Ramesh Munda says, “Those who applied for housing benefits in 2011 are getting their houses. As Anjan was not there in the list, we are not able to give him a house.”
Assistant Block Development Officer (ABDO) Sarat Chandra Barik, meanwhile, assured that the block administration would prioritise the physically challenged while rolling out government schemes.
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