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Housing scheme remains non-starter
District administration is flooded with applications for two-bedroom houses. It is posing a challenge for the officials as the contractors are disinclined to take up the works. The government has fixed the cost of each house in rural areas at Rs 6.29 lakh and Rs 7 lakh in urban areas.
​Nizamabad: District administration is flooded with applications for two-bedroom houses. It is posing a challenge for the officials as the contractors are disinclined to take up the works. The government has fixed the cost of each house in rural areas at Rs 6.29 lakh and Rs 7 lakh in urban areas.
The contractors are not coming forward because the cost fixed by the government is not attractive to them.
The dreams of people in Kagazmaddur village to occupy the houses by Dasara have been shattered. The officials have planned to pull down the huts to replace them with two bedroom house.
On being promised that the houses would be built at the same place where the poor lived, some of them have demolished their shelters. Later, the villagers put up temporary huts on agricultural lands and have been living there for the last one year, hoping that the government would fulfil its promise to build double bedroom houses for them. Each had to spend between Rs10,000 and Rs15,000 for erecting a hut.
The huts that they built collapsed during the recent rains. Frustrated by the delay in launching the two bedroom houses, the poor have now wanted to go back to the places of the origin and build small houses themselves. Minister for Agriculture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy had launched the housing scheme in his home constituency of Banswada.
He had in fact evinced keen interest in the scheme and even tried to encourage a few contractors to take up the scheme in Varni, Kotagiri, Birkur and Banswada. But, the scheme has still remained a non-starter. So is the case with the scheme in Nizamabad town and Armor, Bodhan, Kamareddy, Banswada, Jukkal, Yellareddy, Balconda constituencies. The district administration chalked out plans to build 3,765 houses at a cost of Rs 250 crore
