The construction of houses has begun in Kamal Vihar, the much-awaited ambitious scheme of Raipur Development Authority (RDA). The very first house of Kamal Vihar is being constructed in its Sector-1 in the scheme, RDA officials informed on Monday. According to officials, construction over plot purchased by Sonali Bhattacharya and Ashish Bhattacharya has started. After completing formalities from RDA they had got loan sanctioned from Central Bank of India.
An employee of Public Works Department (PWD) Ashish Bhattacharya had purchased 1700 sq feet land here in 1998. However, there was no proper arrangement of power, water supply and drainage system. After the formation of the State in year 2000, several people purchased plot here without proper documents. Since the colony at that time was illegal they could not have easy access to basic amenities such as drinking water, power supply, drainage and similar.
Understanding the problem of large number of people living here, the Kamal Vihar Town Development Scheme was launched in 2008, RDA officials said. They further informed that Kamal Vihar is one of the biggest town development schemes of India with its total area of about 1600 acres. The scheme has about 7,000 plots. Currently for generating funds for the project, RDA is selling 1100 residential plots along with about 100 commercial and other plots. Not only people from Chhattisgarh but NRIs based in different countries have evinced interest in the scheme and have purchased plots here.