A group of tribal women from Gujarat’s Tapi district is demanding justice from the collector and accuses the local authorities of discrimination and irregularities in the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY). The women, who belong to several villages in Songadh taluka, have alleged that many deserving families are being denied housing benefits while certain groups are receiving preferential treatment.
The issue came to light when a large number of women from Chimer, Medha, Dhanmoli and Khanjar villages gathered and approached the District Collector’s office to seek justice. During the district-level public grievance programme held on Monday, 22nd June 2026, the women submitted a formal representation and claimed that benefits under government welfare schemes, including PMAY, were being provided mainly to converted Christian families, while many Hindu tribal families were being left out.
According to the protesting women, they have repeatedly raised the issue before local authorities but have received little response. They said that despite decades of government welfare programmes, many genuinely poor families in the area still do not have proper housing and continue to be excluded from schemes meant for their benefit.
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The protesting tribal families say that at the local level, only converted Christian families are being given the benefits of the schemes, while the original tribal families who follow Hinduism are being continuously ignored. Due to this discrimination based on religion, eligible poor families have been deprived of their rights.
According to local leaders, whenever a survey is conducted in villages for housing schemes, the general public is not informed, and the information is hidden. Only the influential people of the village who are close to the leaders are getting the benefits of government schemes repeatedly. Some families have already received the benefits of the housing scheme twice, while the needy people who do not have a solid roof over their heads are still wandering without a home.
The administration had completed the ‘welcome’ program by giving only general guidance to the aggrieved women who reached the collector’s office regarding the housing scheme, which led to dissatisfaction among the women.
The women have made it clear that they are not satisfied with just the guidance on paper, but they demand a permanent solution to their problems and that all eligible beneficiaries get houses on an equal basis. Now it remains to be seen whether the administration takes any action after these serious allegations.
