24th Jan 2017, Special Corespondent from TheHindu
Hello 2BHK aspirants, The Telangana Government has decided to to speed up implementation of the double bedroom housing scheme by launching it in all Assembly segments this year by relaxing norms in supply of sand and providing cement at Rs 235 per bag, so as to complete all the 2.6 lakh houses sanctioned so far by the year end.
The Cabinet sub committee on double bedroom housing programme comprising Ministers A Indra Krian Reddy (Housing), T Harish Rao (Irrigation), G Jagadish Reddy (Energy), and P Mahender Reddy (Transport) that met hereon Monday asked the contractors to speed up work as relaxation and other measures being taken up by the Government would bring down the construction cost by Rs 100 to 110 per sft.
On an average, the relaxations would bring down the unit cost by about Rs 50,000, Mr Indra Kiran Reddy said after the meeting. He explained That the cabinet panel had decided to recommend to the government to allow contractors to get sand from quarries from neighboring districts in case it was not available in the required quantity in the same districts without any cost.
Further, contractor would be supplied cement at Rs 235 per bag as the cement companies had agreed to supply the material at the price for the scheme.
Besides, the subsidy provided for construction of individual sanitary latrine (ISL) could also be availed for the scheme, Mr Indra Kiran said adding that it was being planned to complete tenders for over 2.45 lakh houses by February end.
The NTPC also had agreed to transport fly ash, required for making cement bricks for double bed room houses from it's Ramagundam unit for about 100 km distance free of cost.
The decisions taken at the meeting would be taken to the notice of Chief Minister K Chandra Shekhar Rao and after his nod fresh guidelines would be issued, the Minister noted.
