Under the Indira Awas Yojana, construction of 18,000 houses for the BPl families, including 14,576 forest rights recognition letter holder families, in Chhattisgarh has been completed within two months of the current financial year.
The Central Government, on the proposal of Chief Minister Raman Singh, has decided to sanction special grant to provide Indira Awas to the forest rights recognition letter holder families of Chhattisgarh. 2,086 houses of general category families and 1,339 houses for flood-hit families of 16 districts are also including in the houses constructed during the period. According to an official press statement issued here on Tuesday, under the scheme, for construction of houses for the houseless poor families of rural areas, one-and-half time increase has been made
in the grant amount for the current financial year 2013-14. The per house grant amount has been increased from 45,000 to 70,000 for general areas and for mountainous or far-flung areas and Integrated Action Plan (IAP) districts from Rs 45,500 to Rs 75,000. In this scheme, the Central Government will give 75 per cent and the State Government 25 per cent grant to the beneficiaries. Officers of the Panchayat and Rural Development department today said that under the scheme, construction of 3,965 houses in Surguja district, 2,025 houses in Bastar (Jagadalpur), 1,819 in Mahasamund, 1,794 in Korba and 1,712 houses has been completed during the financial year.
Similarly, construction of 1,475 houses in Jashpur, 1,183 in Kabirdham, 802 in Korea, 831 in Rajnandgaon, 631 in North Bastar (Kanker), 609 in Raipur, 381 in Janjgir-Champa, 299 in Durg, 136 in Narayanpur, 124 in Raigarh, 120 in Bijapur, 83 in South Bastar (Dantewada) and 2 houses in Bilaspur district has been completed. The figures of the nine newly formed districts have also been included in it.