Guwahati, March 27 : An Assam minister has announced a new scheme for poor people in his wife name.
Assam Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department Minister, Gautam Roy, has announced a new scheme Mandira Awas Yojana (MAY) following to the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), which scheme was implemented by union government across the country for Below Poverty Line (BPL) people.
In last week, the minister had announced the new scheme in a public meeting held in Algapur constituency in Barak valley in his newly elected MLA wife name Mandira Roy.
Mandira Roy, wife of Gautam Roy, recently elected to the Assam legislative assembly from Algapur constituency in the by-poll, which was held in this year.
“Most of BPL beneficiaries of the constituency had missed out benefits from IAY scheme. The Mandira Awas Yojana (MAY) will target those beneficiaries, who missed out from IAY,” the Assam minister said.
“We will build houses for BPL families under the new scheme,” Gautam Roy said.
(Report By Hemanta Kumar Nath)