T'PURAM: Though the chief minister has announced the inauguration of 20,000 new houses under Life Mission in his next 100-day programme, latest data showed that the government had received 9,20,260 applications under the mission seeking homes, of which only 63.42% applications were verified till Jan 6, 2022.
Even among the verified, only 64.5% of the applications were found eligible for processing. Of the total number of applications received, only 5,83,676 applications were verified till date and 3,76,701 were found to be eligible. In effect, only 40.9% of the applicants have been cleared for homes under the mission till Jan 6.
Among districts, Palakkad received the maximum applications (1,36,228) followed by Thiruvananthapuram (1,16, 763), Kollam (82,805) and Malappuram (82,441). The applications are categorized as homeless who have land in their name and those who are homeless and landless.
