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Housing for all eligible poor, says Bandaru

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 25. All eligible poor in the country would be provided weaker section houses positively by the year 2010, Bandaru Dattatreya, Union Minister for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, announced here on Sunday.

Laying the foundation stone for construction of 646 houses to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 3.87 crores under VAMBAY housing programme at Papireddy Nagar and Gowlidoddi colonies, Mr. Dattatreya said prime and costly lands in the municipality has been identified and allotted to the most poorest of the poor families after an exclusive survey.

Responding to the requests of local residents, he assured to take up construction of over bridge or under bridge under the railway track for easy access to the main Mumbai highway road.

Mr. Dattatreya said a total of 7,146 houses at a cost of Rs.42 crores with 50 per cent subsidy component from Union Government and a loan component of Rs.21.32 crores was sanctioned under VAMBAY in Ranga Reddy district.

The Minister for Commercial Taxes, K. Vijayarama Rao, who participated in the function, said implementation of weaker section housing scheme was delayed due to land grabbing cases though `pattas' approved by the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) were issued to the poor. He said 452 houses at Papireddy Nagar and 194 houses at Gowlidoddi colony were sanctioned with 50 per cent subsidy component from the Centre.

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