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HC orders MP govt to remove tiles with PM Narendra Modi and CM’s photos on houses for urban poor
The govt order issued said the earlier order regarding fixing of the tiles with the Prime Minister and Chief Minister’s photos on them on PMAY (U) houses has been cancelled.
Tiles with images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan must be removed from houses built for the urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and a compliance report must be filed within three months, the Madhya Pradesh high court has ordered.
In its order on Wednesday the court said the state government must ‘retrieve all such tiles which have already been fixed carrying picture of Prime Minister and chief minister under PMAY and fixed the next date of hearing in the case for reporting compliance for December 20.
Earlier on Wednesday, the state government submitted an order of its directorate of urban administration and development’s order dated September 18, 2018 to the high court cancelling its previous order dated April 4, 2018 to fix tiles with photographs of Prime Minister Modi and chief minister Chouhan on houses being built under PMAY (Urban).
State government advocate Praveen Newaskar submitted the directorate’s order dated September 18 issued by additional commissioner, Urban Administration and Development, Madhya Pradesh Vikas Mishra, to the Gwalior bench of the high court.
The order issued to commissioners of all the Nagar Nigams and chief municipal officers of all the Nagar Palika Parishads and Nagar Parishads said the earlier order regarding fixing of the tiles with the Prime Minister and Chief Minister’s photos on them on PMAY (U) houses had been cancelled.
The order also stated that in light of the instructions of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs’, the logo of PMAY would now be fixed.
On September 11 the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs had told the court that it had not issued any instructions regarding the tiles with photographs of the PM and the CM and that it had advised the state/union territories governments to ‘display standard logo of the PMAY (U) in all houses constructed under the PMAY (U)’.
The high court had issued notices to state government, central government and directorate of urban administration and development, MP Government in July this year on the petition filed by Sanjay Purohit, a resident of Datia district, challenging the directorate’s April 4 order and alleging that the tiles were being installed on PMAY (U) houses with an eye on the upcoming assembly elections this year.
