Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal govt heavily criticised in Lok Sabha; irregularities in PMAY-G alleged

West Bengal CM Mamata BanerjeePhoto : IANSNew Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs in Lok Sabha on Tuesday lambasted the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government accusing it of indulging in alleged irregularities in the implementation of the central scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Grameen (PMAY-G) and lack of interest in developing sports infrastructure in the state.PMAY-G aims at providing a pucca house, with basic amenities to all houseless households and those households living in kutcha and dilapidated houses.Addressing the Lower House during the Question Hour, Barrackpore BJP MP Arjun Singh alleged that Trinamool Congress (TMC) government was “looting” funds allocated under the PMAY-G and depriving people of benefits under the mission.”Funds are sought under the scheme after clicking photographs in front of fully built homes,” Singh said during the Question Hour.Related NewsTMC Councillor Anupam Dutta shot dead in West BengalAsansol election: Will you say the same for PM? asks TMC candidate Shatrughan Sinha as some dub him ‘outsider’The TMC members protested against Singh’s allegations against the Bengal government.The BJP MP further hit out at the TMC regime, saying that the BJP members in West Bengal are feeling as if they belong to a foreign country as the state government had been ignoring their requests for convening meetings of Disha committees.”Disha committee meetings are not being held. We are not aware of any Disha committees in the state,” Lok sabha member Singh said.Related News’Mamata can’t even run West Bengal peacefully’: BJP laughs off her national ambitionsNotably, the Centre has formed District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committees in every district to monitor the implementation of central programmes.Meanwhile, Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said the BJP-led government at the Centre has taken note of some states changing the name of the scheme after taking money from the Centre under PMAY-G.Union Minister of State for Sports Nisith Pramanik also claimed that even after Sports Minister Anurag Thakur wrote letters to all state governments regarding the development of sports infrastructure, the TMC government had not sent any proposal for the development of sports infrastructure in the state.

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