Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram has launched a probe in­to the Youth in Agri­cul­ture Home­stead Pro­gramme (YAHP), ac­cus­ing the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion of mis­lead­ing hun­dreds of young peo­ple with promis­es of land, homes and fund­ing that nev­er ma­te­ri­alised.

The ini­tia­tive, launched un­der for­mer Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice min­is­ter Fos­ter Cum­mings, was ex­pect­ed to pro­duce 1,000 new farm­ers, but ac­cord­ing to Rati­ram, not a sin­gle promise was ful­filled, and the starter homes are nowhere to be seen al­though monies had been al­lo­cat­ed.