Ulta Pulta
Ideal society
Jaspal Bhatti

Applications are invited to form Adarsh Housing Societies in all major cities of the country. As the name suggests, the housing apartments will be ideal (adarsh) for all influential politicians, bureaucrats, top Army and police officers, income tax bosses and relatives of chief ministers. Any common man, howsoever deserving, may not apply to avoid frustration. War widows, relatives of freedom fighters or terrorists’ victims can apply to give adarsh status to the societies but should not harbour hopes of possessing these flats.

Had such advertisements been published in newspapers, Adarsh Society Mumbai-like scams wouldn’t have surfaced. When the Adarsh Society in Colaba was first formed to provide housing to Kargil heroes and their widows, it should have been made clear to the deserving applicants that they were welcome to apply but the actual allotments would be at the CM’s discretion.

Whenever we kick-off any Adarsh scheme, it should be clarified for whom it is going to be adarsh (ideal). A man got a fake certificate made about his own martyrdom and applied for a flat in the reserved quota. The officer asked him, "From where have you got this certificate made?’ The man replied, "From a Pak commander, who has already been promoted showing me killed during an encounter."






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