Officers turn crowd pushers for PM`s PMAY event
(WorldNews India)

40,000 beneficiaries of the scheme are to be present at the Oct 19 function in Shirdi, and officials are under major pressure to ensure that the numbers are visible. Some have decided to include people from the previous year to meet their targets On October 19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be at Shirdi to do an `e-grihapravesh´ for 40,000 beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the scheme for affordable housing, in the state. This has sent the government machinery in five districts into a tizzy to locate, coax and transport the beneficiaries to the event. Show of numbers being critical in the run-up to the elections, huge pressure has been mounted that every beneficiary...