The Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) will construct houses for government employees in 146 block and nine new district headquarters at a project cost of Rs1,000 crore. The decision comes in wake of Chief Minister Raman Singh’s directions to the Revenue Department to take prompt action for solving the problem of housing for the government employees in various district and block headquarters.
According to officials, Revenue Minister Prem Prakash Pandey said that his Department has issued circular to all the district collectors in this regard. In the circular it has been stated that the land should be allotted to CGHB as per demand and equivalent to the cost of construction of houses. Earlier, the land was allotted by an Inter-departmental Committee. However, according to the State government’s decision, the allotment of land will now be done by a Committee of senior Secretaries, officials said.
The circular states that the Government land will be selected for construction of residences for government officials and employees at the headquarters of nine new districts formed in 2012 including Balod, Bemetara, Gariaband, Balrampur-Ramanujganj, Surajpur, Mungeli, Kondagaon, Sukma and Baloda Bazar-Bhatapara besides all 146 block headquarters of the State, officials said. The circular also states that the land identified will remain in the name of the Government and will be provided to CGHB only for construction of houses.