: Five years after BJP’s UP sweep: In Mirzapur, infra push and Hindutva blunts OBC discontentment #IndiaNEWS A concrete house. That’s all Mamata Sahni ever wanted. “I worked as a labourer, lifting

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Five years after BJP’s UP sweep: In Mirzapur, infra push and Hindutva blunts OBC discontentment #IndiaNEWS
A concrete house. That’s all Mamata Sahni ever wanted. “I worked as a labourer, lifting bricks with a child in my womb,� said Sahni whose husband, too, works as a daily-wage labourer. “I worked even when I was nine months pregnant because I thought if I worked hard, some government official would take pity on me and approve a house for me too like they had for other people I knew.�That didn’t happen for nearly a decade. But then, last year, the family received cash assistance of Rs 1.20 lakh under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin, a Central scheme that aims to provide “pucca houses, with basic amenities, to all rural houseless households and those households living in kutcha and dilapidated houses, by 2022�.Sometime earlier this year, Sahni moved into her own concrete house. For now, the windowless two-room structure is unpainted, and stocked with only the barest essentials, such as a wooden bed and a few plastic chairs. Inside, the smell of wet cement lingers, but nevertheless, the house has a piece of Sahni’s heart. She has adorned the main door with faux flowers, and drawn asymmetrical swastikas, considered auspicious in Hinduism, with bright red paint on the entrance. She is always eager...Read more

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