The Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) is seeking to empanel manufacturers of high quality building materials for use by contractors involved in executing its various projects of the State for a period of one year.
Notably, Chhattisgarh has also become the first State to get Central Government’s approval for taking up affordable housing projects in urban areas under Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana (PMAY) launched in June last year.
An inter-ministerial Central Sanctioning-cum-monitoring committee chaired by Dr Nandita Chatterjee, Secretary (Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation) approved Chhattisgarh Government’s proposals for building 26,034 houses in 11 cities and towns in the State. Of these, 12,670 are for beneficiaries belonging to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and 13,364 for low Income Group (lIG).
The projects approved will be taken up in: Raipur, Naya Raipur, Bhilai Industrial Estate, Rajnandagaon, Nardaha(Raipur), Jorapalli(Raigarh), Bilaspur(Chilhati), Shriramnagar (kanker), Machewa(Mahasamund), Balod(Sivni) and Sukma, officials stated.
Houses for EWS have been sanctioned under the ‘Affordable Housing in Partnership’ component of PMAY. The central sanctioning committee also approved central assistance of `190 crore for these 12,670 EWS houses at `1.50 lakhs as per Mission Guidelines. lIG houses will be built under Credit linked Subsidy component of Housing Mission for which Central Nodal Agencies—National Housing Bank and HUDCO (Housing and Urban Development Corporation) have been authorized to provide interest subsidy @ 6.50% on loans up to `6.00 lakhs for each eligible beneficiary for a loan tenure of 15 years.
The Committee also approved release of first installment of `76 crore to Chattisgarh Government. State Urban Development Agency is the nodal agency for housing mission while Chattisgarh Housing Board is the implementing agency.
Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) is meant only for beneficiaries belonging to EWS under which 35% of the houses proposed to be built shall be reserved for EWS with project size of minimum of 250 houses. Reservation for EWS in the AHP Projects approved for Chattisgarh in 11 cities ranged from 36% to 52%.
City-wise details of EWS houses to be built are : Raipur-3104, Naya Raipur-7720, Bhilai Industrial Estate-192, Rajnandgaon-272, Raipur(Nardaha)-192, Jorapalli-144, Chilhati-272, Shriramnagar-134, Machewa-336, Balod-140 and Sukma-164.
CGHB will also 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 last year 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.
CGHB also will 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 `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.
Chhattisgarh Government has also set a target of constructing nearly 42,000 houses under Indira Awas Yojana in the State, officials stated. Moreover, the State Government provided approvals for construction of 1.34 lakh housing units for the economically weaker sections during the past three years.
As a result, out of `424 crore available fund for construction of housing units, a sum of `309.19 crore had already been spent for construction of 88,654 housing units.