The state government is heading with a massive target of providing houses for all by 2024.
Chief minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has asked the officials to get ready to meet the new target and asked them to keep house sites and pattas ready for 26 lakh women across the state to be launched on Ugadi day this year.
The CM held a review meeting with the officials on the housing programme at the camp office in Tadepalli near here on Friday. He reviewed arrangements being made for the Ugadi event where the government would distribute house sites to 26 lakh women in the state.
The government is planning to build 30 lakh houses in the next four years. The CM enquired about the funds sanctioned in the urban and rural areas as part of the centrally-sponsored schemes and the funds that were to be sanctioned by the state government for the same.
He said houses have to be constructed for those who already have plots in addition to the beneficiaries who are going to be given pattas.
The officials said that the plan was ready for the construction of over 19.3 lakh houses to the beneficiaries in the limits of municipalities and urban development authorities. They said that in addition to the 4,500 engineers in the housing department, the newly recruited 45,000 employees in the village secretariats would be involved in the housing programme and they have been given training in handling the work.
The CM directed the officials to maintain quality in the construction of houses. He asked them to ensure that banks give a loan of Rs 25,000 at the rate of 25 paise interest to each beneficiary and that the remaining amount would be borne by the government. The loan would be helpful to the beneficiaries to meet exigencies, he added.
The CM also directed the officials to provide proper drainage system, water facility and electricity in the colonies and to plant saplings.
Minister for housing Cherukuvada Sriranganadha Raju and other officials were among those present during the review meeting.
