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New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday handed over keys to beneficiaries of 76 affordable housing units constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) on the land taken back from the possession of slain gangster Atiq Ahmed in Prayagraj. CM Yogi Adityanath interacted with the children at the site of the flats handed over to the beneficiaries. He also inspected the flats made for the poor. A beneficiary told ANI that “It looks very nice. I never thought that I will get my own house. Now no one will ask me to leave…” Beneficiaries will get 41 square meters for just Rs 3.5 But will get a flat. Lakh. Officials said that the cost of a flat with two rooms, a kitchen and toilet facility is Rs 6 lakh.
76 flats built for the poor on land seized from slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj were allotted through a lottery on June 9. “A lottery was drawn for allotment in the auditorium of the Allahabad Medical Association. After verification of 6,030 applicants, 1,590 were found eligible to participate in the lottery,” said Arvind Kumar Chauhan, vice-chairman of the Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA).
CM Yogi laid the foundation stone of this affordable housing project on 26 December 2021 on 1,731 square meters of land freed from the possession of Atiq in Lukarganj area of Prayagraj.
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Officials said the project has been launched by the District Urban Development Authority (DUDA) under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and 76 flats have been built in two blocks.
Atiq Ahmed was also an accused in the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal in 2005 and Umesh Pal, a key witness in that case, in February this year. Ateeq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot at on the night of April 15 this year by people posing as journalists when they were being taken for a medical examination in Prayagraj.
