5,000 houses to be built in city under new scheme

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, NOV. 10. About 5,000 houses will be built in the twin cities under the Valmiki Ambedkar Awaz Yojana Scheme to be launched next month simultaneously here and in Delhi, according to Mr.B.Dattatreya, Union Minister of State for Urban Development.

He told presspersons here on Saturday, after launching two waterlines in the Secunderabad and Musheerabad constituencies and inaugurating two community halls in Himayatnagar constituency during a `padayatra', that the scheme would be launched in Delhi by the Prime Minister, Mr.A.B.Vajpayee.

About Rs.100 crores would be released under the first phase of the scheme. During this phase four lakh houses would be constructed throughout the country. Each house would cost Rs.60,000, half of which would be given as soft loan by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO). The amount is repayable in 15 years at the rate of Rs.200 a month.

Under the National Slum Development Project (NSDP), Rs.54 crores would be sanctioned this year and the next for creating infrastructure in about 100 slums in the twin cities. The facilities to be created included provision of drinking water, under the Manjira phase IV in each dwelling and sanitation. The water project would be taken up by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, he said.

The Minister reiterated the party's demand for diversion of the Krishna waters to meet the city's drinking water needs. He said once the State Government submitted its report on the Rs.650- crore Krishna water scheme, he would strive to secure loan from the HUDCO.

Mr.Dattatreya said as the MP from the city it was his responsibility to discuss the issue of Krishna water supply and housing under the Valmiki Ambedkar Awaz Yojana Scheme for Hyderabad with the Chief Minister, Mr.N.Chandrababu Naidu.

The cost of the works launched by him today included Rs.18 lakhs for the water lines and Rs.6.15 lakhs for the community halls, he said.

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