Five ex-Union ministers occupying bungalows categorical willingness to vacate authorities lodging: Officials

By PTI

NEW DELHI: As many as 5 former Union ministers, who’re nonetheless occupying bungalows above their entitlement, have communicated their willingness to vacate authorities lodging within the nationwide capital, Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry officers mentioned on Friday.

They mentioned even former Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, who was served with an eviction discover by the Directorate of Estates lately, has additionally conveyed that he can be vacating the 27, Safdarjung Road bungalow.

According to officers, Pokhriyal’s bungalow has been allotted to Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.

Meanwhile, another former ministers, Prakash Javadekar and Harsh Vardhan, have already communicated to the HUA ministry that they are going to be vacating their respective official bungalows.

“They will soon shift to their entitled category (type VII bungalow),” an official advised PTI.

The official mentioned that there are at present round 5 kind VIII bungalows being utilized by former ministers, including that each one of them have expressed their willingness to vacate the identical.

On Friday, the Union housing and concrete affairs ministry accomplished the method of Chirag Paswan from the 12, Janpath bungalow allotted to his late father Ram Vilas Paswan in 1990.

Talking about lodging guidelines for the ministers and MPs, one other senior official within the Union housing and concrete affairs ministry mentioned that kind VIII bungalows are allotted to Union ministers and senior members of the judiciary.

Ex ministers are normally entitled to kind VII lodging.

“Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have also their housing committees which allot government accommodation to their members from their own quota. There are also some type VIII bungalows with them (Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha housing committees), but MPs are usually given bungalows lesser than the type VIII category,” official identified.

He mentioned that there’s a Cabinet committee on lodging that has energy to allot a authorities bungalow to a “private person” on safety floor and different causes.

In July 2020, senior Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had been requested by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry to vacate her authorities lodging after the Centre had withdrawn SPG safety cowl.

“Those who are Special Protection Group (SPG) protectees are entitled to government bungalows. Once their such security cover is withdrawn, they have to surrender their accommodation facility,” official mentioned.