The BJP is completing four years of ruling the Gwalior municipal corporation on January 10.
To commemorate this occasion, the Municipal Corporation is planning several stone laying programmes regarding several development works. This year the mayor Sameeksha Gupta would gift houses to the poor included in the priorities of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Under IHSDP scheme 100 legible beneficiaries would be given keys of the houses. A work for constructing 200 houses for the poor is being carried out at various places of the city. The Chief Minister had announced after taking the oath that houses with facilities would be given to 15 lakh poor people in the State.
They Mayor have decided to implement the promise on priority basis. For this officers of Municipal Corporation have been ordered that they should complete the formalities related with beneficiaries before January 10. A total of 2,000 houses are being constructed at Sagartal road, Scindia Nagar hill, Bakra Mandi and Suresh Nagar in various packages. The houses measuring 240 square feet have two rooms kitchen and lat bath. The share of the beneficiaries has been kept 50 per cent of the cost of the house and the rest would be borne by Centre, State Government and Municipal Corporation.
Deputy Commissioner Revenue AK Rohatgi said that under the scheme the beneficiaries who have been given pattas of package no. 2 and package no. 3 should complete the work related to the contract with bank within a week. They should also present income certificate and related documents in the bank so that the possession of the houses could be handed over to the beneficiaries.