HC quashes IHUDP beneficiary list
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 01 2011:
The Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench in an interim order on Tuesday suspended the new beneficiaries' list submitted by the Executive Officer, Kakching Municipal Council in place of the previous list of beneficiaries for the Integrated Housing and Urban Development Programme (IHUDP).
The order to suspend the list until further order was given following a petition by Sougaijam Joy one of the beneficiaries and nine others.
The court issued notices to the Executive Officer of the Kakching Municipal Council and the respondents of the petition which includes the newly revised beneficiaries and Secretary of Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Alleviation, giving a deadline on June 29 .
The matter came up when the executive officer submitted a fresh list of 544 beneficiaries citing the previous list which was submitted to the chief town planner by the executive officer himself prepared wrongly.
The petition mentioned that the executive officer himself had told the chief town planner that the previous list was a true and correct list of beneficiaries which was prepared after thorough verification by a committee comprises of MAHUD Joint Director as chairman and SDO Kakching and OC Kakching PS as members.
On the contrary, the executive officer claimed that the previous list was wrongly prepared as soon as a new Municipal Council was formed.