Central team finds families that applied for PMAY homes in both Bihar and West Bengal
Hindustan TimesA team from the Union rural development ministry probing irregularities in the selection of applicants for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana housing scheme in West Bengal villages has found that more than 20 families applied for the scheme in Bihar as well, according to state officials. A team touring West Bengal’s Malda district found these families in the Mahanandatola area, which is located along the Bihar border. His mother said she was not aware that his name appears in the list of applicants in Bengal,” a Malda district official aware of the matter said on conditions of anonymity. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party on January 5 when the central team arrived in the state and informed that out of five million applicants, the names of 1.7 million have already been deleted; five more teams arrived last week.