The scorching summer heat seeps through the fragile walls of T. Komuramma’s makeshift hut in Vedurugatta village of Choppadandi mandal, nearly 18 km from Karimnagar town in Telangana. But for the 60-year-old, the harsher burden is not the weather; it is the sight of a half-built pucca house standing incomplete at a short distance from her village.

Four years after Komuramma was allotted a double-bedroom house by the government, she is still waiting for the day she can move into it. “My joy knew no bounds when I was allotted the house near our village. But that happiness did not last long. The construction of 2BHK houses were stopped midway,” she says, her voice trailing into disappointment.