Chas Municipal Corporation (CMC) is on move to turn the city into ‘hut free’ zone. People residing in the slum or homeless will be shifted into apartments, informed Sashi Prakash Jha, Additional Municipal Commissioner, CMC.
“We are at work, there would be no single hut in Chas. Apartments would be constructed at Kalapathar as transit blocks and people residing in the slum or homeless will be shifted in those apartments. A market complex is also proposed to come up at that site,” said the AMC.
“Our aim is to bring the existing slums within the formal system and enabling them to avail the basic amenities that are available for the city residents,” he said.
“We are working hard to turn Chas as a slum-free city. A detailed work plan is ready and we are planning to assume that by the end of 2022,” said an official.“We have also planned to settle down 760 urban homeless people under Prime Minister Aawas Yojna (Urban). The layout of apartments has been ready, with an investment of Rs 56 crore apartments would be constructed at Kalapathar and Kamaldih in next two years,” said JP Yadav Executive Engineer CMC.
“Houses would come-up on 4 acres of land at Kalapathar and one acre of land at Kamaldih where 540 and 220 homeless would be settled. Each house will have a bedroom, dining room, kitchen and bathroom,” added Yadav.
The beneficiaries have to apply fresh for this scheme either online or at CMC office along with voter ID (must), Aadhar card, three passport size photos, bank passbook and residential certificate issued by revenue official of their hometown.
This housing scheme will consider economically weaker BPL as well as APL categories only, and their annual income should not be exceeded than 3 lakhs rupees, he said.
“The most important thing is that the beneficiary should not have a pucca house is his or her name, or in the name of any of his or her family in any part of India,” added Yadav.