Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Thursday announced to increase the area of houses constructed for economically weaker section (EWS) under various housing schemes from 30 square meters of carpet area to 50 square meters of covered area so as to give a comfortable space for the family to live in the State.
Manohar lal announced this while presiding over a meeting on ‘Housing for All’ scheme here.
He said that a 30 square meter house is too small for a family and therefore, the houses meant for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category should have atleast 50 square meters covered area so as to provide them a comfortable accommodation.
He directed to prepare an action plan to analyze the market rate of property and accordingly fix prices of houses constructed for people belonging to EWS, low Income Group (lIG) and Below Poverty line (BPl).
He said that the flats of EWS and BPl Category which are lying unoccupied should be made open for sale so that the needy could purchase them. He directed that no house constructed by any government agency should be left unoccupied.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister said that the State Government would facilitate construction of ten lakh new houses in the state.
He directed to conduct a physical survey in the state so as to ascertain the number of families and existing houses in both urban and rural areas. Ge also directed to prepare a list of those families that are either living in kutcha or dilapidated houses so that they could be brought under ‘Housing for All’ scheme and provided residential accommodations at hygienic places.
As per census 2011, there are over 47.06 lakh houses in the state. These include over 29.61 lakh in rural areas and over 17.45 crore in urban areas.
During the meeting, it was informed that under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), all the 4041 statutory towns in the country with focus on 500 class-I cities would be covered in three phases. The Government of India has approved the coverage of nine towns of Haryana i.e. Faridabad, Karnal, Hisar, Yamunanagar, Rohtak, Gurgaon, Sonepat, Sirsa and Panipat in phase-I.
Housing Board has so far constructed 83536 houses in the state since its inception whereas, 17024 houses are under construction. Apart from this, 22529 more houses have been planned to be constructed by the Housing Board in the state.