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In Karnataka, the state and central governments provide support to poor households to have their own houses under three programmes, namely, Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), Rural Ashraya (Basava) Housing Programme and Dr. Ambedkar Housing Scheme. Since Ashraya (Basava) programme has been subsequently renamed as Basava programme, we will henceforth refer to this as Ashraya (Basava). In addition, there are schemes that provide housing benefits to those residing in urban areas or those that provide only house sites. The focus in this chapter is only on the three rural housing schemes.
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The reason for higher proportion of yet to be constructed houses in 2010–11 is the sanction of 329 houses by the MLA in one of the GPs from the irrigated district. At the time of sanction, several persons came forward to avail housing benefits; but, many persons, especially those belonging to the poor, have dropped out subsequently on account of small amount of assistance, and the inability to construct the house with the housing assistance sanctioned. Despite several notices, 191 out 329 houses (accounting for as much as 58%!) sanctioned in 2010–11 were not construct, compelling the GP to surrender these houses to the government.
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Rajasekhar, D., Babu, M.D., Manjula, R. (2018). Housing Schemes, Elite and Capture of Benefits. In: Decentralised Governance, Development Programmes and Elite Capture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1900-6_7
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