The UT Administration has decides to handover the keys of 8100 small flats constructed at Dhanas under slum rehabilitation scheme of JNNURM by the end of this month. In a meeting on Tuesday, the senior UT officials reviewed the progress of the project. It was informed in the meeting that most of the works to be done by various Departments including Electricity, Engineering, Public Health among others are completed. A senior official said, “The ambitious project is almost complete. And, we are likely to hand over the keys of small flats by the end of this month. The chief guest and date for the same is yet to be finalised.”
Earlier, the Administration had invited Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hand over the keys of small flats. The ambitious project to construct 8100 flats in Dhanas villages spread over an area of 162.5 acres. The UT official said “The CHB had invited Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hand over the keys of flats to beneficiaries. But no confirmation has been received so far.”
“This is the biggest project under the slum rehabilitation in the country. The CHB which was entrusted with the huge project has already submitted that all the works have been completed and verification of about 8100 beneficiaries have also been done,” he added.
The task of allotting about 8100 small flats linked with Aadhar numbers is also being undertaken by the UT Administration and a township of about 40,000 persons is going to come up at Dhanas.