The Hindu 28.01.2010
Houses for poor in the city, at last
Special Correspondent
| A road map to complete 44,000 houses in three phases planned |
Beneficiaries’ lists to be placed on website of A.P. State Housing Corporation Limited
About 16,922 houses to be completed by March 31, 14,902 by July 31 and 12,551 by Jan. 1, 2011
HYDERABAD: Identified beneficiaries for houses being constructed in the Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts can hope to get their dreams realised at last. Possession certificates are to be handed over to many of them living in select slums early next month.
At a recent coordination meeting by top officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and district Collectors of Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts, it was decided beneficiaries lists be placed in website of A.P. State Housing Corporation Limited (APSHCL).
A road map to complete 44,000-odd houses in three phases was also hammered out at the meeting held in GHMC Commissioner Sameer Sharma’s chambers. About 16,922 houses are to be completed by March 31 including, infrastructure, 14,902 by July 31 with infrastructure and the remaining 12,551 by January 1, 2011 for which tenders are to be called with as many as 138 contractors ready to take up works on a nomination basis.
Identified beneficiaries living in Osmanshahi, Chudibazar, Chandrakiran basti, Shankar basti, Phoolbagh and Unnikota are to be handed over possession certificates in the next two months starting from February first week.
Alternative site
Hyderabad Collector was requested to provide alternative site to ground 32 houses at Annanagar in Khairatabad and for a housing colony behind Rail Nilayam.
Rangareddy Collector is to handover 28.50 acres at Kurmalguda and another 25 acres at Jawaharnagar within a fortnight to ground housing works under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Beneficiaries’ contributions available with both Collectorates too are to be transferred to GHMC.
Documentation work
Staff of the Urban Community Department (UCD) wing of the Municipal Corporation is to be deployed for documentation work and also for loan tie-ups with the bankers for which a meeting is to be conducted shortly.
Pending houses construction under ‘Vambay’ to be expedited by exploring the possibility of obtaining Rs. 20,000 per house for the 27,379 houses transferred to the A.P. State Housing Board from the A.P Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation (APUFIDC) for completing them.
Hyderabad Collector Navin Mittal, Ranga Reddy Joint Collector Sudarshan Reddy, Additional Commissioner K. Dhanunjaya Reddy, Engineering-in-Chief P. Panduranga Rao and others attended. Mr. Mittal is to review the works progress every week and Mr. Sharma every month to sort out pending issues.
