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Saturday, 10 September 2016

Housing for All ? Status Report

Business Line ( 10 Sept 2016 ) carries a news report , titled :

" Housing for All in the slow lane "

Following are its highlights :

# " Housing for All " mission was launched in June 2015 , to construct 200 Lakh houses by 2022

# As of date, construction of 9 lakh houses has been approved by the Ministry of Housing

# Of these , some 72,000 houses are under construction across 7 states

# So far , only 2,883 houses have been completed ( 1719 in Gujarat / 718 in Chhattisgarh / 446 in Tamil Nadu )

# Out of 36 States plus UT , 15 have not even sent their proposals to the Ministry !

At this rate , by 2022 , expect following :

# 5 Lakh .... under construction

# 25,000.... completed

# 5,000 .... allotted

Having raised the EXPECTATIONS of poor people of India , it is still not too late for Shri Narendra Modiji to ask, Niti Aayog to re-frame the " HOUSING FOR ALL " mission along the following lines :

* QUANTUM JUMP OF 50 MILLION HOUSES

{ http://myblogepage.blogspot.in/2016/02/cheap-houses.html }

* A Half Way House

{ http://myblogepage.blogspot.in/2016/01/a-half-way-house.html }

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10 Sept 2016

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