Gujarat has become the first State in the country to take up Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects for in-situ redevelopment of slums in urban areas under the recently-launched Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana.
The inter-ministerial Central Screening and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) of the Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry chaired by Nandita Chatterjee, Secretary(HUPA) on Monday approved 30 PPP projects proposed by the Gujarat Government for rehabilitation of slum dwellers in Ahmedabd, Surat, Rajkota and Vadodara.
As per a Government official, 17,580 new dwelling units will be constructed for slum dwellers living on Government lands in these four cities of Gujarat by private developers. The Government will provide an assistance of about Rs176 crore at the rate of Rs1 lakh per house to be built.
land will be monetised for meeting the remaining cost of slum rehabilitation projects and consequently, slum dwellers will get new houses with all amenities free of cost, said the official.
The CSMC also sanctioned 1,69,381 houses for economically weaker sections in 145 cities in 8 states for which a total central assistance of Rs 2,444 crore will be provided.
The EWS houses approved include 47,050 units in 70 cities of West Bengal, 45,217 in 27 cities and towns of Telangana, 27,186 in six cities of Gujarat, 19,241 in 16 cities of Madhya Pradesh, 16,146 in 14 cities of Jharkhand, 7,621 in nine cities of Tamil Nadu, 5,548 in Bhubaneswar in Odisha and 1,364 in Aizawl and lawngtlai in Mizoram.
With this, the HUPA Ministry has so far approved construction of 4,23,415 houses for urban poor in 243 cities in 11 States across the country, for which the Government will provide an assistance of Rs5,900 crore, the official added.