After reviewing the ‘Intensive Household Survey’ conducted by the state government last year, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday said his government would build houses for two lakh poor in the city who are shelter less and don’t have houses of their own.
KCR, who held a review meeting with officials of the housing department in Hyderabad, said the government’s prime aim is to ensure that not even a single poor man remains in Hyderabad without housing, according to a release from his office.
KCR wondered 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 constructing houses to the houseless poor?. 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. The entire exercise cannot be completed in a day as the construction of houses should be taken up in a phased manner, he added. Rao also cautioned the officials to ensure that land grabbers and ineligible people do not get benefited by the scheme