UP: 4 Married Women Flee With Lovers On Receiving PM Awas Yojana Money

Four married women in Uttar Pradesh allegedly eloped with their lovers as soon as they received the money under the Prime Minister's scheme of Awas Yojana. These four beneficiaries of the scheme come from different districts of UP and have left their husbands in a frenzy.

Government schemes aim at providing relief and support to the common public. One such scheme is Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in which the government provides financial help to people belonging to economically weaker and low-income groups to own a house. The purpose of the scheme is to eradicate the shortage of housing facilities in urban areas and has benefitted many people. However, four women from Uttar Pradesh found a loophole in the scheme and decided to turn it into an opportunity.

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UP Women Flee With Lovers

Four women from Banki, Nagar Panchayat Belhara, Siddhaur and Zaidpur reportedly applied for PMAY. The scheme makes it mandatory for the female family head to be the co-owner or owner of the house and the instalments for construction are transferred to the account of female heads. As a result, these four beneficiaries received the first instalment of Rs. 50,000 to be used in the construction of the house. However, these women allegedly fled with their lovers as soon as they got the money. Their husbands were left baffled as they feared the warning from authorities for not starting construction and the notice to recover the money that they never received.

The issue came to notice when District Urban Development Agency (DUDA) came to know that the husbands of these four women have not yet started the construction even after receiving the monetary help. They issued a notice to begin construction but there was no response or action. On receiving warming from government officials, the husbands reached out to the authorities and described what happened. They asked the authorities not to credit the next instalment in the bank account of their wives so that they could not access it. The officials are trying to recover the money from the beneficiaries.