lakh labourers live in the city no official figures are available mcg commissioner yashpal yadav said it is not that the government is leaving them to their own devices even to get a licence developers have to build separate homes for people belonging to ews bu he admitted we do need a comprehensive model under which we can remove shanties and give its residents proper accommodation in areas close to their workplace such a model is in place in cities such as ahmedabad yadav also cited hudas ashiana scheme under which nearly 12000 small flats would be provided to people belonging to the ews category the allotment is in the final stages he addeda few months ago mcg promised 34400 houses across the district under the pradhan mantri awas yojna a detailed project report dpr for the houses to be built by multiple government agencies including huda mcg hsiidsc on behalf of the central government was prepared these houses are to be provided under various methods including credit link subsidy cls in situ slum rehabilitation and affordable housing in partnership ahpan applicant for the scheme a resident of a slum in sikanderpur showed toi a form he had bought for rs 200 and later laminated saying he had not heard back on whether he would get a house i was told it will be in the papers but i dont know how to read said karim who is from murshidabad karim says nearly 500 people from his slum filled up the form and paid the application money to a tout but six months later they were still waiting for a responsesources in the town and country planning department within said no one keeps track of who benefits from the mandatory ews quota in colonies and privately built housing in some projects the cost of ews apartments is quite high making them unaffordable for the poor people buy these houses and rent them out there is no enforcement to check the same in some cases people furnish false income certificates or buy a house in the name of relatives and sell it off after 5 years after which it is in the open market said a senior official the state government has now constituted a monitoring committee for the same which includes the deputy commissioner huda administrator senior town planner district town planner planning and subdivisional magistratethe ashiana project a part of hudas integrated housing and slum dwellers programme ihsdp had been approved and launched in october 2009 to provide hygienic living spaces equipped with basic amenities to slum dwellers huda constructed nearly 9990 lowcost units in haryanas urban areas including gurugram and faridabad huda has from time to time invited applications for allotment of the 1088 flats at a prime location in gurugrams sector 47 but till date not a single flat has been allotted a report submitted in the state assembly in 2015 mentioned that 204 applications for the houses were received but no one was found to be