Mangaluru’s Amruta Housing Scheme Beneficiaries from Coastal Villages

As many as 46 villages spread over Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts have been selected under the government's ambitious Amruta housing scheme. This scheme is expected to enable over 6,000 people not having their own houses or sites to have roofs over their heads. On the occasion of the platinum jubilee celebrations of Indian independence, the government has announced 14 schemes including this one. In the past, the governments had implemented several schemes for the benefit of people without their own land or houses. But this is the first scheme which plans to provide residential sites to all the eligible people in a village. 27 gram panchayats from Dakshina Kannada and 19 from Udupi have been chosen for the implementation of this scheme. The villages chosen in Dakshina Kannada district have 2390 homeless people. As many as 1,908 do not have their own houses or sites. In 19 gram panchayats of Udupi district, over 2,000 are likely to get houses and sites. The department of housing has prescribed that if no government land is available in the gram panchayats, private land has to be acquired as per government guidelines. The list of homeless has to be checked from the 2018 survey, include if any eligible persons are left out, and choose the beneficiaries at a time through the gram sabhas, the department said.