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| Poverty shatters dream of orphans, Admin fails to provide any help to BPL family | | Central Schemes For Whom? | |  S T Haq
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 14: Despite the fact that various centrally sponsored schemes have been implemented in India along with the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, scores of poor families are living their life in miserable conditions and due to which their dreams remain unfulfilled.
Among the scores of poor families, there is one family of Ritu Devi Wd/o Puran Chand R/o Deon Purmandal whose poverty speaks to what kind of challenges she is facing.
Ritu Devi said that, “just six months back, Late Puran Chand who was a driver by profession died due to natural death and family is trying hard to survive with each passing day, as they have no source of income to feed their family”.
Unfortunately the family is not having their own house, but they are living temporarily in a single room like shed where they are spending their life, while the family has not been yet covered under the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category.
Even during rainy season or hot days, the family has never complained to anyone about their daily problems that they are facing, sometimes my brothers help me and sometimes anybody else, said the mother of two children from Deon Purmandal.
However it is also learnt that, family has many poverty issues, the panchayat members including Sarpanch had visited the family but so far no financial assistance has been provided to them.
The two children of late Puran Chand are studying in a government school Deol and after completing their education they want to join the Indian Army, and for that they need financial support which they don’t have from any quarter yet, said family members of this widow lady.
Though there are various centrally sponsored schemes that were launched for the welfare of poor people so that they can live their life satisfactorily, be it an IGNOAPS, ISSS, NOAPS, or any other scheme, said locals.
Families that have BPL cards are the ones who are living below the poverty line specified by the state government. BPL families receive 10kg to 20kg food grains per family per month at 50% of the economic cost.
One of the neighbour of Ritu Devi said that, despite various centrally sponsored schemes in place, like Indira Awas Yojana(IAY), that is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Rural Development, was launched primarily to help the construction of dwelling units for members of SC/STs, freed bonded labourers and also non- SC/ST rural poor living below the poverty line.
I believe there is no purpose of this scheme, when poor people are living here miserably, though the scheme of IAY has been re-structured into Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) with the commitment to provide “Housing for All” by 2022, said a neighbour of Ritu Devi of Deon Purmandal. |
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