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Mission proposal to provide basic amenities: Selja

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Big shortage of dwellings in the country

CHANDIGARH: The Centre proposes to set up a National Urban Renewal Mission under which efforts would be made to provide basic amenities like housing, water, cleanliness, education, health and so on to the people living in urban areas, the Union Minister of State for Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Selja, said here today.

Inaugurating the Orientation and Training Programme for personnel of Apex Cooperative Housing Federations of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, organised by the National Cooperative Housing Federation of India and the Regional Institute of Cooperative Management (RICM), here on Saturday, Ms.Selja said that cooperation of all the institutions working in this field and that of the cooperative societies will be sought for preparing an Approach Paper for this Mission.

She disclosed that according to the Census 2001, there was a shortage of more than three crore houses in the country. Apart from this, there was the need to reconstruct two crore kuchha dwelling units to make them worth living. The Approach Paper to the 10th Five-Year Plan indicated that by 2007 the shortage of dwelling units would be more than two crore in the urban areas. Eighty per cent of the people afflicted by shortage of houses in the urban areas were living in slums and the housing problem mainly affected these people, she added.

Keeping this population in view, her Ministry had set up a Task Force to review the housing policy of 1998. She further said that the National Common Minimum Programme of the UPA government had laid special stress on the rehabilitation of slum dwellers and the promotion of social housing.

Ms.Selja said that no cooperative institution could deliver efficient and effective results until those running and spearheading it were not fully educated and trained. Stress was being laid on education, training and information of the people engaged in this movement.

M.L. Khurana, Managing Director, National Cooperative Housing Federation, said that around 10 lakh people get employment every year through the cooperative societies and about one crore people are associated with 5,50,000 Housing Societies in the country.

Panel to solve problems of traders'

The Haryana Government has constituted a 16- member State Level Consultative Committee, headed by the Excise and Taxation Minister,Venod Sharma, to solve the problems of traders in the State.

An official note said that the other members of the committee would include the Financial Commissioner, Finance; Financial Commissioner, Excise and Taxation; Financial Commissioner, Industries; Financial Commissioner, Food and Supplies and 10 representatives of trade and industry to be nominated by the

State Government as members. The Excise and Taxation Commissioner would be the Member Secretary.

The committee was constituted following a meeting of a delegation of the Haryana Pradesh Vyapar Mandal with the Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on April 20.It would meet once in a quarter or as frequently as considered appropriate by the Chairman.

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