The state government on Wednesday issued orders for construction of 2 lakh 2BHK houses for the poor in the state, barring GHMC limits, in the ongoing financial year 2016-17. The unit cost in rural areas has been fixed at Rs 5.04 lakh and urban areas at Rs 5.30 lakh.
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| The government had already approved construction of 60,000 2BHK houses in GHMC limits in 2015-16 just before GHMC elections. (Representational image from DC) |
The government had already approved construction of
60,000 2BHK houses in GHMC limits in 2015-16 just before GHMC elections, where
the unit cost was fixed at Rs 7 lakh. However, tenders are yet to be finalised
due to poor response from contractors, who are seeking higher unit cost.
An additional Rs 1.25 lakh per unit will be
sanctioned for creating infrastructure facilities in rural areas and Rs 75,000
in urban areas. The responsibility of implementing the 2BHK housing scheme has
been entrusted to district collectors in the districts and the GHMC
commissioner in GHMC limits.
A project monitoring unit has been constituted by
the housing department which will monitor the allocation of funds for the
scheme. Since the government had not allocated any fund for 2BHK housing scheme
in the 2016-17 Budget, the entire funds required for the scheme would be
mobilised through various funding agencies.
Housing minister A. Indrakaran Reddy said, “The
government will ensure that there is no dearth of funds. We have already approached
several national and international funding agencies and construction companies,
which are keen to partner with the government. We are going to create a record
by constructing 2.60 lakh 2BHKs in a year, which no government had dared to do
in the country so far.”
Mr Reddy said each 2BHK is equal to seven Indiramma
houses constructed by earlier Congress governments and those criticising TRS
government for the delay in constructing 2BHK houses should realise the
sincerity and commitment of the government towards the poor to provide them
their dream houses for free though it imposes a huge financial burden on the
government.
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