Prime Minister Narendra Modi will declare open the five-day 'Chhattisgarh Foundation Day' celebrations ‘Rajyotsav 2016’ here on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister will later proceed to inaugurate the idol of late Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya at Mantralaya Complex during his State visit.
The 15-feet high marble made idol of Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya has been installed in front of Mantralaya at Syama Prasad Mookerjee Industrial Complex.
Renowned sculptor and Padmshree award recipient Arjun Prajapati of Jaipur (Rajasthan) has sculpted the idol, officials informed.
According to official information, the Prime Minister will land at Swami Vivekananda airport at Mana from where he would proceed to IIIT complex Naya Raipur. He will then proceed to inaugurate Jungle Safari .
later on, the Prime Minister will dedicate the Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) between Raipur and Naya Raipur to the public.
The 170-crore BRTS project has been supported by World Bank and in the first phase 30, AC buses will be deployed between Raipur and Naya Raipur.
He will also dedicate the two kilometers long ‘Ekatm Path’ constructed between Naya Raipur Railway Station and Capitol Complex to the public.
The Prime Minister will later reach Rajyotsav venue and will meet with Sarpanchs-Panchs.
He will also inspect ‘Shilp Gram’ and ‘Make-in-India’ stalls at the Rajyotsav venue. After addressing a public meeting he will return to New Delhi .
The Prime Minister will also felicitate Mungeli and Dhamtari districts and fifteen divisional blocks (Janpad Panchayats) for being 'Open Defecation-free' as a part of the Swachch Bharat Mission (Rural).
Notably, the Zilla Panchayat Presidents, Collectors and Chief Executive Officers of Panchayats will receive awards at the hands of the Prime Minister.
Zilla Panchayats Chairpersons also will be felicitated. The Divisional blocks to be felicitated are Gourela, Patan, Katgora, Mungeli, Patharia, lormi, Maanpur, Khairagarh, Geedham, Kansabel, Nagari, Dhamtari, Rajnandgaon, Masturi and Kawardha. The rural areas are being encouraged by the Sampoorna Swachchta Abhiyaan, officials informed.
Notably, the Prime Minister felicitated Ambagarh Chowki and Chhuria Development blocks in Rajnandgaon district and declared O.D.F. on February 21 this year.
About 5377 beneficiaries had been registered for the Economically Weaker Sections (E.W.S.) and lower Income Group (l.I.G.) houses under construction at Naya Raipur under both the Prime Minister Housing Project and Chief Minister Housing Project, officials informed.
The registration of the houses had begun in the month of February this year.
The construction of 6,500 houses out of 40,000 houses are to be built as part of ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna’ (PMAY) which has already begun in Naya Raipur.
Moreover, the ‘Mukhya Mantri Awas Yojna’ focussed at providing low-cost housing for economically weaker sections and lower income groups has also been included under PMAY, an official press statement informed.
Notably Chhattisgarh is the first State in India to begin the scheme and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dedicated this scheme to the nation on February 21 this year in Naya Raipur, officials informed.
Between February 21 and April 30, 2016 about 5,000 beneficiaries have applied for EWS and lIG houses out of which over 2,500 applicants have been allocated houses, the statement informed.
As per the latest project details, a total of 11 proposals have been considered by the Central government under PMAY during the aforesaid period.
The houses for EWS have been sanctioned under the ‘Affordable Housing in Partnership’ component of PMAY.
The Central Sanctioning Committee had approved central assistance of Rs 190 crore for these 12,670 EWS houses @ Rs.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 Rs 6.00 lakhs for each eligible beneficiary for a loan tenure of 15 years.
The Committee also approved release of first installment of Rs 76 crore to Chattisgarh government.
The State Urban Development Agency is the nodal agency for housing mission while Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) is the implementing agency.
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.
The inter-Ministerial Central Sanctioning & Monitoring Committee (CSMC) of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has sanctioned Rs 190 crores for construction of 12,670 houses in Chhattisgarh as on November 2015, officials informed.
The Committee, nationally has approved funding for construction of 6,83,724 houses in 18 States since November,2015 with a total investment of Rs.43,922 crore including Central Assistance of Rs 10,050 crore.
The Central government has approved construction of a total of 7357 houses under ‘Affordable Housing in Partnership’ scheme with Chhattisgarh government in the State during the current financial year, officials informed.
The total investment to be made in the project is Rs 372 crores out of which Centre’s contribution would be Rs 110 crore.
Nationally, the Central Government has approved an additional investment of Rs.16,641 crore for affordable housing for construction of 2,44,267 houses for urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) during the first four months of the current financial year.
The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation approved these proposals for the benefit of urban poor in 11 States.
Central assistance of Rs. 3,634 crore has been approved for construction of these houses under three components of the urban housing mission viz,, Affordable Housing In Partnership (1,24,642 houses), Beneficiary led Construction (1,15,989) and In-Situ Slum Redevelopment (3,636 houses).
With these approvals, a total investment of Rs 51,568 crore has so far been approved for construction of 9,27,991 houses for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in urban areas in 20 States under PMAY (Urban) which was launched in June last year.
Central assistance of Rs.12,604 crore will be provided for construction of these houses.
During the last financial year (2015-16), 6,83,724 houses were approved for the urban poor in 18 States with a total investment of Rs 34,927 crores.
It may be recalled that the Chhattisgarh government has also commenced the process for setting up the 'Tribal Museum and Tribal Research & Training Centre' at the ‘Purkhouti Muktangan’ premises in Naya Raipur, officials informed.
NRDA will also be developing an integrated adventure sports facility at Sendh lake in the new capital region.
It may be also recalled that the Chhattisgarh government would also re-create models of Bastar and Surguja division jungles and other natural beauty of Chhattisgarh in the proposed Film City to come up at Naya Raipur.
The nature based models would be created for enabling shooting of films which would also help showcase Chhattisgarh in global cinematic space, officials informed.