Govt Completing BRS Era 2 BHK Homes Too: Ponguleti
1.12 lakh Indiramma Illu to be ready by March end
Hyderabad: Fast progress is being made in the government’s housing for poor programmes with plans to hand over 1.12 lakh houses under the Indiramma Illu scheme before March 31, with preparations underway to hand over another one lakh houses by the end of June this year, housing minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said on Wednesday.
The announcement was made in the Legislative Assembly during the Question Hour when MLAs cutting across party lines sought to know from the government on the housing programme. Srinivas Reddy also said that to address questions or concerns from the legislators, a 24x7 helpline number will be activated soon and any queries from the MLAs will be responded to within one day.
Srinivas Reddy said in addition to the 3,500 Indiramma Illu sanctioned for each of the 119 constituencies, the government was ready to sanction another 1,000 houses each, depending on the requirement in the constituencies. He also said that keeping in view of the needs of tribal communities, including the Chenchus, the government added 12,000 houses exclusively for these sections of beneficiaries.
Calling the housing programme a prestigious one taken up under Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s leadership, the housing minister also said that steps were being taken to complete works in houses built as part of the BRS government’s 2-bedroom housing programme.
“Around 25,000 2BHK homes were allotted before the last elections, but of them, around 12,000 were not accepted by the beneficiaries who said the houses were far away from their places of work. The government has already issued notices to them, giving them two months to decide if they want these houses or not, and another extension has now been given. If the allotted beneficiaries do not come forward to claim the houses, they will be given to the eligible seeking houses, but who can occupy them with their areas of work falling in a five or 10 km radius of the houses,” Srinivas Reddy said.
Of the two lakh 2BHK homes sanctioned during the previous government, from the one lakh allotted in Hyderabad limits, around 80,000 units were at various stages of completion. The government spent ₹738 crore to complete 21,000 units from these, while another 62,000 units were nearing completion in all aspects, the minister said.
Deputy Chief Minister and finance minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, rejecting suggestions that payments to Indiramma houses were not being made on time, said so far around ₹5,000 crore have been released, and bills are being paid every week. If needed, the government is ready to provide more Funds.
