The Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) will be constructing 4168 lIG flats and another 3104 EWS flats under ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana’ at Kamal Vihar scheme being implemented near Raipur city.
The housing units would be constructed in 25.53 hectares of land using RCC Precast Technology in 18 different locations of the scheme, officials stated. Notably, the CGHB recently bagged the ‘Best EWS Developers’ award for effectively meeting the housing demand of the people belonging to economically weaker sections. The award was handed over by the Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu during ‘Housing For All’ Convention-cum-Award ceremony organized by ASSOCHAM in New Delhi.
Chief Minister Raman Singh and the State’s Minister for Housing and Environment Rajesh Munat had congratulated CGHB for its significant achievement and praised the efforts being made by the Board to ensure housing facility for the economically weaker sections.
Moreover, Additional Chief Secretary (Housing and Environment) N Baijendra Kumar had also congratulated the Board and its officials for the success. Notably, on behalf of CGHB, the award was received by CGHB Chairman Bhupendra Singh Swanni and CGHB Commissioner Siddharth Komal Singh Pardeshi.
“The objective of CGHB is to ensure providing houses with basic facilities and infrastructure for the people from different sections of the society. In the interest of people belonging to economically weaker sections of the society, the Board constructs around 85 percent of houses under its project,” Chairman of CGHB Bhupendra Singh Swanni had stated.
According to CGHB Commissioner Siddharth Komal Singh Pardeshi, aiming to deal with increasing population in urban areas, a housing scheme till 2022 has been formed on the lines of Centre’s ‘Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana’. The project aims in developing housing schemes for people dwelling in slum areas, urban poor and people belonging to EWS.
Pardeshi had further informed that during the next three years (from 2015-16 to 2017-18) CGHB has fixed a target for construction of as many as 15000 houses in 2015-16 while 25000 houses in 2016-17 and 25000 in 2017-18. Similarly, under general housing scheme, around 9000 houses will be constructed by the Board in 2015-16, 10500 in 2016-17 and 11000 in 2017-18. In addition to this, 23664 houses in 2015-16 under Mukhyamantri Awaas Yojana, 7336 in 2016-17 and 9000 in 2017-18.
As many as 4000 houses will be constructed in Kamal Vihar scheme under affordable housing scheme in 2015-16, 2000 houses in 2016-17 and 1500 houses in 2017-18. The Board has been assigned with the task to providing housing facility to people falling in the category of medium income group, lower income group and economic weaker sections under different schemes including Atal Awaas Yojana, Deendayal Awaas Yojana, Kushabhau Thakre Awaas Yojana and others.
CGHB will also be constructing as many as 40,000 houses in Naya Raipur under an affordable housing scheme.
Of the 40,000 houses to be constructed involving an expenditure of expenditure of Rs 3500 crore, 20,000 houses will be constructed for economically weaker sections, 10000 houses for lIG-A and 10000 for lIG-B category.
CGHB is committed to ensure facilities to families falling under economically weaker sections and under this move, the Board will be constructing 40,000 houses under Mukhyamantri Awaas Yojana, stated Minister for Housing and Environment Rajesh Munat.
The Minister further informed that the State government will give grant of Rs 1 lakh for each houses falling under EWS category while Rs 50000 grant for lIG houses. For this, the Chhattisgarh government is going to provide total grant of Rs 357 crore.
As per information received from CGHB officials, houses with carpet area of 27 square meters will be constructed for EWS category whereas 40 square meters has been fixed for lIG-A and 60 square meters for lIG-B.
Under this scheme, the Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) is going to provide land with of Rs 1 square per square feet. The cost of houses will be Rs 4 lakh from single EWS house (excluding grant), Rs 7 lakh for lIG-A (excluding grant) and Rs 10 lakh for lIG-B (excluding grant). Incidentally, the CGHB had been utilising advanced and cost effective RCC Precast technology for constructing houses under Mukyamanti Awas Yojana (Chief Minister Housing Scheme). The Precast technology is a globally recognised process through which concrete is cast into a mould and then transported to the construction site for use, officials stated.
The Chhattisgarh government has also set a target of constructing nearly 42,000 houses under Indira Awas Yojana in the State, officials stated.