The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) on Thursday floated a request for proposal (RFP) for the selection of a bidder for the Nakhara Awas Yojana, an affordable housing project, to come up over six acres of land in Nakhara mouza on the city outskirts in public private partnership (PPP) mode.
This project comes under the scheme, “Housing for all” in the urban areas.
While the BDA would provide unencumbered land, facilitate and ensure time-bound statutory approvals for the project, the selected developer would construct 600 standard size economically weaker sections (EWS) units over four acres and hand over to the BDA. Then the BDA would transfer two acres of land on freehold basis for developer’s own commercial use.
Previously, the BDA had planned 5,500 EWS houses through PPP and 2,800 on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode. With the Nakhara project, the city would have 8,900 stocks of EWS housing units.
The physical infrastructure would comprise internal roads, footpaths, water supply, sewage treatment plant, drainage, parks, street lighting, solid waste management and disposal, water conservation, energy management, fire protection and fire safety.
The project would have a shopping complex in an area of three per cent of the built-up area as per the design and construction requirements of the BDA. The developer would be responsible for rectification of defects in the Affordable Housing Project (AHP) assets for 5 years from the completion date of AHP.