Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CHB) to mark its 10th year of establishment is going to organise Awas Mela (Housing Fair) in BTI Ground Shankar Nagar from February 25 to 28. The fair is being organised for easing the problem of the customers and also availing better housing facility to needy ones, informed Sonmoni Borah, Commissioner CHB addressing a Press conference here on Sunday.
Notably, the CHB was established on February 12, 2004. During the fair, CHB Commissioner said, people would be informed about various new services like, e-awas, samriddhi online, toll-free numbers, payment gateway and others extended by CHB.
Over the span of 10 years, CHB has brought revolution in the field of housing and have constructed over 85,000 houses in Chhattisgarh out of which more than 84 per cent are for people representing economically weaker sections, he maintained.
The Commissioner further detailed that about 1 lakh houses under Atal Awas schemes would be constructed on an area of 400 square feet which would cost about `3.50 lakh. Subsidy up to `80,000 would be given on those houses, he said.
The series of this fair had started from Korba and was held in Bilaspur, Raigarh, Jagdalpur wherein several beneficiaries actively participated in the fair. After Raipur the last of the series would be held in Rajnandgaon from March 1. This institution always tries for availing quality houses on lower costs, Commissioner Borah told reporters.
Highlighting features of fair he said during the fair progress in construction of the houses, status of payments would be furnished. For physical inspection of the project a free of cost ‘Housing Express’ is being run for the customers. Payments of contractors shall also be done during the fair. Applications for free hold of houses would be also accepted during this period. He informed that 7,000 houses have been made freehold in past one year.