Places where there are toilets, nobody can use them because there is no water. At many places, it is also seen that the Custom-made filter housing Manufacturers area of house grossly differs from the area promised," he said. How will constructing new toilets help unless problem of water is sorted out," he asked."There are announcements on the housing sector for the poor.5 years? In many places houses have been created but people are yet to get possession.Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant on Wednesday said though the government has provided relief to the salaried class, it has completely forgotten the farmers, youths and senior citizens, and also took a dim view of the decision to give infrastructure status to affordable housing sector.Sawant further said that making budgetary allocations for construction of toilets will do no good unless problems of water are sorted out. But how many houses have actually been created in the last 2.
Even as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the skill training sector will continue to remain high on priority, with rural areas set to getting more attention, Sawant said this sector has "failed miserably" in the present governments tenure."Even today I see men, women and children defecating in the open.Questioning Jaitleys assertion that affordable housing will get infrastructure status, Sawant asked the government should reveal how many affordable houses have been created till now."While the Budget has given relief to salary earners, it completely forgot farmers, youth, senior citizens and women with no substantial provisions for them," Sawant told PTI.On the Railway Budget, Sawant said, "We are yet to understand what has been announced in the budget."