The Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation is constructing as many as 3,641 houses for officials and workers of Home Department across the State, officials stated.
As of now, the Corporation has accomplished construction of around 772 houses while works for construction of over 2000 houses are underway.
According to official information, tenders to start construction works for remaining 860 houses have been floated. Under different schemes of Central and State Government, these houses are being constructed with the estimated cost of Rs236.45 crore.
These houses are being constructed in 22 districts including Bastar, Dantewada, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Kanker, Surguja, Rajnandgaon, Koriya, Jashpur, Surajpu, Balrampur-Ramanujganj, Kabirdham, Dhamtari, Gariaband, Mahasamund, Raipur, Durg, Balod, Bilaspur, Korba, Janjgir-Champa and Raigarh.
Under 13th Finance Commission, as many as 2094 houses with expenditure of around Rs123.76 crore are being constructed for officers and workers in the State, said department officials, adding that of 2094 houses, construction of 272 houses has been completed and construction o f over 1000 houses are underway while tender has been floated for construction of 820 houses. The Chhattisgarh government has sanctioned around Rs75 crore for construction of over 1000 houses for police, of which construction for 500 houses has been completed while construction of 504 houses will be accomplished shortly, informed officials.
According to the officials, under police modernisation programme, Central Government is developing as many as 530 houses with estimated expenditure of around Rs36.70 crore. Of total sanctioned house, construction of 490 houses is ongoing while works for remaining 40 houses will be starting soon.
With the expenditure of around Rs98 lakh, construction of as many as 13 houses for the police personnel is ongoing under special infrastructure scheme, added officials.
Moreover, the Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation is in the process of constructing as many as 152 buildings for police stations with estimated expenditure of Rs417 crore, officials stated.
Of the 152 police station buildings, 75 buildings with a cost outlay of Rs150 crore are being constructed in insurgency-hit districts of Chhattisgarh, said officials, adding that construction of about 25 buildings has been accomplished while construction of 15 buildings will be completed shortly.
The Corporation is constructing 34 fortified police stations of which construction of almost all fortified police stations will be completed by the end of December this year, added officials. As many as 53 police stations will be constructed across the State under Police Modernization Scheme from which construction of 10 police stations have been accomplished and works for 31 police stations are underway while tendering process for three others have been completed and the work would start soon.
Similarly, the State Government has sanctioned 21 buildings for police station with expenditure of Rs8.34 crore, said officials, elaborating that of sanctioned police stations building, the Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation has completed construction of six police stations while works for 15 police stations are in progress.
Under special structure scheme, six police stations with cost of Rs1.5 crore will be developed in the State, of which, one police station has been completed and works for others are underway.
The work on construction of 75 fortified police stations in the left Wing Extremism (lWE) areas of Chhattisgarh would be complete by December-end this year.
This was informed by Managing Director of Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation D M Awasthi to State Home Minister Ramsevak Paikara at the Mantralaya last month.
The Minister was reviewing the status of various projects taken up by the Police Housing Corporation.
Paikara had asked the officials attending the meeting to ensure protection to the people working on various projects in the lWE areas.
Awasthi had informed the Minister that a total of 25 fortified police stations had already been constructed in the lWE pockets and the work is nearly under completion in another 15 police stations.
He informed that construction work is underway in 34 fortified police stations. Awasthi also informed that out of the 53 police stations approved in Chhattisgarh under Police Modernisation Scheme, work had been completed in 19 police stations and work is under progress in another 31 police stations. The tendering process for rest of the three police stations had been completed and work would start for the same at the earliest, he said. Moreover, out of the 21 police stations approved by the State Government, the construction work had been completed for six police stations and work is underway in the rest of 15 police stations.