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Police had to resort to lathi charge when a swollen crowed turned impatient to collect the forms for allotment of cheap houses in front of the Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) office here today.
In a desperate effort to checkmate the overwhelming response to the announcement of Gujarat Congress for providing affordable housing to housewives if voted to power, the incumbent Modi Government had announced the launch of seven projects in the State, offering 6,300 housing units, for people of various income groups.
On August 23, it was widely reported in the local media that forms will be distributed from Monday morning for the new cheap houses, which were promised to be built by GHB shortly.
As a result, since midnight on Sunday, people started gathering outside the GHB office here, but police had dispersed them by asking them to return in the morning, police said.
The crowd of 1,500-2,000 people got impatient when even after the opening of GHB office no process for distribution of forms began, police said.
Following the announcement by the authorities that they were yet to print the forms, people got frustrated and at that time police had to resort to mild lathi charge to prevent any untoward incident, authorities said.
“Somebody might have played mischief with people’s sentiment, as we have made no announcement for any form distribution,” GHB Chairman Jayanti Barot said.
“We have not even printed any form as such, how will we distribute it? And before distribution, we will give formal announcements in the local media and then people will know,” he added.
The electoral promise of a scheme of an affordable house, Ghar nu Ghar , for every housewife in the State by the Gujarat Congress became an instant hit, with almost 30 lakh forms being distributed across the State within a few days.
Shaken by the public response to the scheme, the State Government activated GHB, its low-cost housing construction arm, which has been dormant for the past several years, to action.
On August 22, Barot had announced that the GHB would launch seven projects in the State, offering 6,300 housing units, for people belonging to various income groups.
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