Chandigarh, Nov. 13 -- The high court on Wednesday sought responses from the Punjab government and the Centre on a plea alleging thousands of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) individuals in the state were dropped from the list of beneficiaries for the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G).

The Punjab and Haryana high court bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry acted on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Sukhjeet Kaur (48), a daily wage labourer from Muktsar, which demanded that state government notification of July 2024 and February 2025 be quashed, vide which the state government excluded 6,952 persons from the permanent waiting list without any notice or ground re-verification.

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