The Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) is now inviting builders and real estate developers to take up plots for development of a ‘Mixed Use Group Housing Project’ in the State’s high-tech new administrative capital on lease.
The plots have been made available in Sector 7 and 15, officials stated. This apart, as many as 40,000 poor families of urban areas will also be allotted houses under Chief Minister’s Housing Scheme launched in Naya Raipur.
The project will cost around Rs2,800 crore and will be implemented under the Central Government’s Affordable Housing Policy. In the same sequence, Chhattisgarh Government will contribute about Rs300 crore in this scheme, officials stated.
The Chhattisgarh Housing Board will provide land for this scheme at Rs1 per square feet. The State Government will provide subsidy of Rs 1 lakh per family to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) families, and that of Rs50,000 to lIG. The beneficiaries will get concession in registration fee and stamp duty. The scheme will be implemented by Chhattisgarh Housing Board at no profit-no-loss basis.
This apart, the homeless BPl families are to be provided 900 sq ft of developed land in the State.
About 40,797 homeless families of the State have already been provided land patta till October, 2014, officials stated.
The State Government in December last year had already announced it will provide one time grant of Rsone lakh for EWS and Rs50,000 for lower Income Group (lIG) houses in Naya Raipur project area.
A target for construction of 40,000 houses in Naya Raipur was decided under these categories in a meeting of Housing and Environment Department held at the Mantralaya last month.
Chief Minister Raman Singh had reviewed the working of Housing and Environment department in the meeting.
It was resolved in the meeting that these houses will be constructed by Chhattisgarh Housing Board and Naya Raipur Development Authority will provide land to the Chhattisgarh Housing Board for just Rs1 per square feet.
Singh directed the officers that the quality of the houses should be good and to minimize the construction cost negotiations should be done with cement and steel companies for supply of material at lower rates.
It was informed in the meeting that the Chhattisgarh Housing Board has set a target of constructing one lakh affordable houses in the State over the next four years. Besides this, the Chhattisgarh Housing Board will also construct toilets in 100 girls’ schools under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
The officers informed that Chhattisgarh Housing Board has constructed about 85,000 houses under different housing schemes of the State government since the formation of the Chhattisgarh Housing Board in 2004. Of these, 85 per cent houses have been constructed for poor and economically weaker sections.
It is noteworthy that Union Urban Development Minister M Vainkaiya Naidu, on behalf of Central Government’s undertaking Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), conferred a national award on Naya Raipur Development Project in a function organised in New Delhi recently.
An ‘Intelligent Tracking System’ (ITS) would be established under the proposed Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in the new administrative capital.
A decision to this effect was taken in the 31st meeting of the Board of Directors of Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) held here recently. Under ITS, the tracing system for buses, operation and management of BRTS system would be carried out and ticketing process would also be linked. The system would be ready for use within the next nine months.
This apart, the NRDA would also be constructing a state-of-art school for the children of project affected families in Naya Raipur. The children admitted to the school would be provided free education and the tendering process for the project would commence within a month.
NRDA Chief Executive Officer Rajat Kumar informed in the meeting that educational institutions and hospitals have evinced interest in setting up their establishments in Naya Raipur. In the healthcare sector, Apollo Hospitals, Narayana Hrudalaya and Wockhardt have displayed interest in setting up their facilities in the new capital, he said.
The State Government has floated ‘Naya Raipur Mass Transport Company’ for ensuring proper management of public transport system in the State’s new administrative capital, officials said.
The NRDA has also formed a Board of Directors for the new company.
Naya Raipur would have 10 bus shelters and a depot. A total of 40 premium and 10 mini buses are being purchased under BRTS. The buses would be operated with a automated mechanism and ticket services would be offered in line with the metros.
The World Bank has extended support to Rs179 crore ‘Bus Rapid Transit System’ (BRTS) project currently under implementation which would have 40 air-conditioned buses plying between Raipur and Naya Raipur, officials stated.
It may also be recalled that Chief Minister Raman Singh has already accorded in-principle approval for formation of a separate ‘Tree Plantation Forest Circle’ under Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) for ensuring organized plantation work in the new administrative capital.
The proposal for plantation work in Naya Raipur would be examined and an appropriate decision would be taken, the Chief Minister stated in a meeting held at his residence here recetnly. The proposal was put forward by NRDA.
Singh had stated that Naya Raipur is being developed in an area of 237 square kilometres and it is necessary that the people living in the new capital would need a green environment.
The government has also identified sites for permanent and temporary campuses for the proposed Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Durg (Bhilai) and New Raipur respectively.
The Mentor Institute of the new IIT in Chhattisgarh would be IIT Hyderabad.
In the Union Budget Speech 2014-15, the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely had announced to set up five IITs in the Jammu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and five IIMs in the States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha & Maharashtra.
The State Governments are to identify suitable land measuring about 500-600 acres which is to be allotted free of cost, free of legal encumbrances at a location having necessary infrastructure such as road, rail and air connectivity, physical infrastructure and basic-facilities for setting up of the IITs.
A budgetary provision of Rs1,000 crore under Plan Head has been made for these institutes during the year, 2015-16.