Public Sector Hindustan Prefab ltd will soon take up construction of houses with development of necessary infrastructure under BSUP scheme of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in Raipur city.
Forty eight per cent of the houses built under JNNURM in the State still remain to be occupied as on December 2015, the Central Government informed last year .
There are 8,875 units occupied out of 18,662 in Chhattisgarh, it had stated.
Out of 13,92,589 houses sanctioned for urban poor under the JNNURM in the country, construction of 9,80,216 dwelling units has been completed (71 per cent) of which 2,37,546 houses (25 per cent) are still to be occupied by the beneficiaries, it had stated.
Under JNNURM and Rajiv Awas Yojana, a total of 1,695 housing projects were sanctioned at a total cost of Rs 40,536 crore involving Central assistance of Rs 21,101 crore for construction of 13,92,589 houses.
JNNURM was brought to a close by March 31, 2014 by the earlier Government and the present Government has extended time for completion of housing projects.
Maharashtra topped the list with 52,966 of 1,23,963 houses still vacant followed by Gujarat (29,126/1,18,044), Delhi (26,759/27,344), Madhya Pradesh (26,004/33,081), Andhra Pradesh (23,688/
62,949), Telangana (21,578/
73,795), Uttar Pradesh (14,890/
61,169), Tamil Nadu (7,517/
1,10,129) and Karnataka with 7,157 of the 42,879 houses lying vacant. These ten States accounted for 92 per cent of the total houses lying vacant.
In terms of vacancy ratio, Delhi topped the list with 98 per cent of JNNURM houses lying vacant followed by MP-79 per centg, Punjab-78 per cent (4,345/5,534), Himachal Pradesh-63 per cent (516/818), Chattisgarh-48 per cent, Maharashtra-43 per cent, Sikkim-43 per cent (111/260), Andhra Pradesh-38 per cent and Telangana-29 per cent.
Among the good performers in respect of occupation of JNNURM houses, Tripura topped the list with all 3,371 houses occupied and closely followed by West Bengal reporting 99.50 per cent occupancy with only 846 of 1,55,141 houses constructed to be occupied. Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, Manipur and Jharkhand also reported more than 99 per cent occupancy.
Other States to
have done well include Odisha with only 2 per cent vacancy, Kerala-3 per cent, Tamil Nadu-7 per cent, Rajasthan-11 per cent, Jharkhand-15 per cent and Karnataka with 17 per cent vacant houses.
For other States, vacancy ratio is 21 per cent for Haryana, Uttarakhand-23 per cent, UP-24 per cent and Gujarat-25 per cent.
The States have been asked to complete the ongoing housing projects by the extended date of March 31, 2017 and to take necessary measures to ensure occupation of all houses.