About 20,000 families in Chhattisgarh would now be able to realise the dream of owning their own house.
CM Raman Singh had already carried out inauguration of 12 completed housing projects while doing bhoomi pujan and foundation laying for 22 others .The housing colonies are being developed by Chhattisgarh Housing Board . The 22 colonies inaugurated by the Chief Minister so far have 7,600 housing units while construction is underway for development of other colonies which would provide housing units to 12,500 families.
The Chief Minister during his ongoing Vikas Yatra had already laid the foundation stone for 11,250 housing projects under Atal Vihar Yojana, 2,671 houses inaugurated under Deendayal Awas Yojana apart from laying foundation stone for 214 houses,
inauguration of 725 houses under Atal Awas Yojana with foundation stone laying carried out for 1,092 houses under a common housing project. This was apart from inauguration and bhoomi pujan performed by him for 4049 houses, an official press release stated here.
Commissioner, Chhattisgarh Housing Board Sonmani Bora stated that more than 80 per cent of the houses have been constructed for the low income and economically weaker sections of the society.
The projects and number of houses for which the Chief Minister has performed foundation stone laying is as follows—Under Atal Vihar Yojana (421), Chokowada (285), Kanker (297), Potiyadih (Dhamtari) (600), Mahasamund (648), Saraipali (659), Gobra (Navapara) (1910), Urla (Abhanpur)
(431), Aarang (1347), Mungeli (520), Bilaspur (538), Urga (664), Raigarh (156 and Jashpur (219).
Under Deendayal Awas Yojana, Chief Minister inaugurated 72 houses in Rajnandgaon and laid foundation stone for 142 houses in Jashpur, Rajnandgaon (168), Abhanpur ( 410), Aarang (110), Bilaspur (1760), Katghora (104) and Ambikapur (125).
Under Atal Awas Yojana , Singh gifted 525 houses in Abhanpur and 200 in Bilha to the beneficiaries. This apart, under ‘Mukhyamantri Samanya Awas Yojana’ the Chief Minister carried out foundation laying for 440 houses at Hatakchaura, Jagdalpur, Dhamtari (62), Kumhari (110), Baghera-Durg (360) and Bilaspur (120). In Raipur district, Raman inaugurated 3,301 houses in Boriyakala near Raipur city.