Deccan Herald 20.08.2012
CMC proposes to construct flats
for poor
Udupi: The State government has okayed the
proposal to construct flats for those poor roofless people in Udupi CMC limits,
under various housing schemes. Accordingly, the CMC has started the process to
identify the government land for constructing the apartments.
The CMC has chalked out plans to construct 360 flats. The government land is
available near Ammani Ramanna hall, Kalyanapura near Santhekatte, Manchi at
Indrali. The survey will be carried out to ascertain the extent of the land
available.
Under the housing schemes, the CMC had initially taught of distributing sites
among the poor. However, as there was shortage of the government land for
distribution, the CMC decided to construct apartments and hand it over to the
poor.
Ashraya Samithi headed by MLA Raghupathy Bhat will select the beneficiaries.
The CMC commissioner will be the secretary of the Samithi. The Committee has
received 1,200 applications for the housing schemes.
Speaking to Deccan Herald, MLA Raghupathy Bhat said “the process to identify
land has begun. Once the land is identified, beneficiaries will be selected.”
The CMC President Kiran Kumar said “two storeyed apartment will be constructed.
The beneficiaries will get financial assistance of Rs 70,000 from the
government. The remaining amount will have to be borne by the beneficiaries in
the form of bank loan. The bank loan should be repaid by the beneficiaries.
Each flat would be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 3.5 lakh.”
