Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal has approved the sanction of Rs882.85 crore for taking up the construction of 11,259 flats of Economically Weaker Section (EWS) at various places in the State. Besides, he also approved Rs171.65 crore as development cost and for construction of community centres in the places where the flats are to be built.
An official said that 11,259 EWS flats would be constructed at different stations in the State at a cost of Rs882.85 crore. Of these, 1,480 flats would be constructed in sector-14 Hisar (Part-II), 1,850 flats in Sector 5 Hisar, 4,928 flats in Sector 9 Fatehabad, 400 flats in Sector 6 Agroha, 976 flats in Sector 22 Jagadhari, 203 flats in Sector 24 Jagadhari, 924 flats in Sector 9 and 32 Karnal, and 498 flats in Sector 9 Safidon.
A sum of Rs163.20 crore would be spent on development works for these flats like the construction of roads, water supply, sewerage, storm water, rain water harvesting system, kerb and channels of roads and interlocking pavers, fire fighting equipments, external electrification, solar water heating system, shops, horticulture or landscaping, boundary wall with gate, boosting station including pump chambers etc.
Apart from this, Rs8.45 crore would be spent on the construction of community centres in these sectors. To provide the affordable houses to the Economically Weaker Sections, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has offered 284.59 acres land to Haryana Housing Board for construction of EWS and other category of houses at Hisar, Fatehabad, Agroha, Karnal, Cheeka, Charkhi Dadri, Jagadhari, Faridabad, Safidon, Jhajjar, Gohana and Sirsa.
The official said possession of 174.62 acres land at Jagadhari, Hisar, Fatehabad, Agroha, Cheeka, Karnal, Charkhi Dadri and Saffidon has been taken over and possession of balance land is yet to be handed over to HUDA.
Planning of the sites has been got done from consulting architects empanelled by Haryana Housing Board, where possession of land has been taken over and decided to construct GF/stilts plus three storeyed houses.