Rangpo (Sikkim), December 05: The Centre today said that it has set a goal to make urban India slum-free by 2012 by providing shelter and other amenities to all urban poor people across the country.
The provision for ?makaan? (houses) to the urban poors living in the towns and cities featured among the top priorities of the UPA government and her ministry has embarked upon the task to provide affordable housing and basic amenities to this section under the programme JNNURM, Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty alleviation Kumari Selja said, after laying the foundation stone of a housing project, here.
–Agencies