CM promises 2 lakh houses for city poor

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday said his government would build houses for two lakh poor in the city who have no shelter of their own. The 'Intensive Household Survey' conducted by the state government last year revealed that two lakh people do not have houses of their own in the city.

KCR, who reviewed poor people housing in Hyderabad, said the government's aim is to see that not even a single poor man remains in Hyderabad without housing, according to a release from his office. When thousands of acres of land is allotted for the comforts and entertainment of the rich, what is wrong if valuable land is used for construction of poor people's housing. The officials should collect land in the city for the purpose, he said.

The government would build double bed room houses for the two lakh poor people in multi-storey buildings in about 2,000 acres, he said. Observing that funds would not be a constraint for housing initiative, he said the government aims to build own house for every poor man as it vowed to provide tapped drinking water to every household. The ambitious programme cannot be completed in a day and the construction of houses should be taken up in a phased manner, he added.