Housing Minister Ali Haidar has said that the list of recipients of the first 4,000 flats under the Gedhoruveriya housing scheme will be announced by the end of this week.
"We will make an announcement by the end of this week if we don't face any problems," Haidar said after Adhadhu sought an update.
Haidar had earlier told Adhadhu that there could be a change in the points given by the previous government when the new list is made public. He said that the points that were earlier visible on the portal were no longer visible because re-evaluation was underway.
"Isn't that re-evaluation? Then [the points on the previous list] may be the same, right? Then, I don't know, [the point] could change," Haidar said.
On July 29, Haidar told the Parliament Petitions Committee that efforts were being made to compile a final list of flat recipients before the completion of the buildings under the scheme.
The Indian government completed and handed over 700 housing units to the Maldivian government on October 7. These were to be given under the Gedhoruveriya scheme.
The former government had declared 15,046 applicants eligible for the Gedhoruveriya housing scheme. The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) government, at the time, decided to give flats to all of them.
After the first list of 4,000 recipients was announced, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) ordered a temporary halt to work on the flats following a complaint filed with the commission.
On February 5, ACC announced that 59 percent of recipients chosen by the previous government did not meet the eligibility criteria. The commission also found problems in the application forms of 19.7 percent of recipients who met the criteria.
