The scheme is for a period of Six years beginning now.
Elections are due in May 2011.
The scheme can not be completed by then.
Voters are being issued with ID cards for allotment of Houses.
Those who do not get now,it is promised , that they will get them ,after DMK comes to power.
Is this not inducement?
Even if DMK were to lose the elections it leaves AIADMK/any other party that may form Government in Tamil Nadu with Hobson’s Choice.
If they continue the scheme,Financial burden will be heavy.
If they don’ they lose votes.
Karunaidhi wins on all counts.
Even if the petition in Court becomes successful Karunanidhi will weep for the ‘poor’.
In the process Tamil Nadu Economy is shot into pieces.
The Tamil Nadu government today announced a series of new welfare measures and schemes including houses for those living in huts, a “mega” housing project to convert 22 lakh mud-walled dwelling units of the poor people into concrete houses free of cost over a six-year period.
The Scheme named ”Kalaignar Housing Scheme”, after Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, envisages an initial investment of Rs 1,800 crore to construct three lakh permanent houses in the coming financial year, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala said in his customary address to the state Assembly.
The scheme, ‘Kalaignar Housing Scheme,’ will commence in the coming financial year, 2010-2011. In the first year, three lakh permanent houses will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 1,800 crore.
The Karunanidhi-led government has already executed a free Colour TV scheme and the Kalaignar Insurance Scheme, offering free medical treatment up to a sum of Rs one lakh for persons with an annual income of Rs 72,000 or less, in corporate hospitals to one crore families.
http://www.news-relay.com/latest-news/tn-govt-announce-kalaignar-housing-scheme-for-poor-peoples/
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Hearing a petition of advocate S. Subramaniam Balaji, the court issued notices to six respondents – the state’s chief secretary, the secretary of the rural development department, the commissioner of rural development and panchayati raj, the secretary of the union ministry of finance, the CAG and the accountant general of Tamil Nadu – and fixed the next hearing Feb 15.
In the interim budget for 2011-12, the state government allocated a sum of Rs.375 crore for the project.
Balaji said in his petition that the housing scheme was unauthorised and should be quashed.
According to him, the housing scheme was ‘unconstitutional, illegal and a sham, floated with the ulterior motive of bribing and the inducing electorate to vote for the ruling party’.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/tamil-nadu-housing-scheme-challenged-court-20110209-063600-723.html
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