Investment of Rs 1,500 crore approved for urban poor housing in Karnataka, Haryana

Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) on Thursday approved construction of 37,013 houses for urban poor in the States of Karnataka and Haryana with an investment of Rs 1,491 crore.

An inter-ministerial Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee chaired by Dr Nandita Mukherjee, Secretary (HUPA) has approved construction of 36,254 houses for Economically Weaker Sections in Karnataka with an investment of Rs 1,468 crore and 759 houses in Haryana at a cost of Rs 23 crore.

In Karnataka, 12,371 dwelling units will be constructed in 8 cities under Affordable Housing in Partnership component of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) for rehabilitation of slum dwellers.

City-wise details of houses to be built are: Gadag-3,630, Bengaluru (Basavangudi)-1,699, Bidar-1,500, Mysuru-1,355, Bellary-1,188, Raichur-1,050, Vijaypura-1,028, Padmanabhanagar (Bengaluru)-895 and Bagalkot-784.

Another 23,883 houses will be built in 207 cities and towns in Karnataka for urban poor under the Beneficiary Led Construction component of PMAY (Urban).

The Central government will provide a total assistance of Rs 558 crore for construction of these houses in Karnataka.

During the last financial year, Ministry of HUPA approved construction of 16,522 houses for urban poor in Karnataka taking the total houses approved for the benefit of urban poor so far to 53,776.

Ministry of HUPA today approved construction of 759 houses by slum dwellers in 11 slum colonies of Yamunanagar-Jagadhari under Beneficiary Led Construction component of PMAY(Urban) at a total cost of Rs 23 crore. Central government will provide an assistance of Rs 11 crore in this regard.

Slums to benefit from construction of these houses are in Harinagar, Lajpat Nagar, Mishra colony, Mukherjee Park, Tirath Nagar, Madhuban colony, Bhagirath colony, Jammu colony, Hamida colony and Burla colony.