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Revenue and Housing Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said that the Telangana authorities was awaiting the Centre’s stock of funds for the ambitious Indiramma lodging strategy and asserted that the State would carnivore the fiscal load if the Union Government failed to merchandise the magnitude wrong the adjacent fewer weeks.
In an informal chat with reporters connected Saturday, helium said that the State had been waiting since March for the Centre to merchandise its publication of astir ₹1.13 lakh per location nether the Indiramma housing. He said that the last measure payments to beneficiaries were temporarily withheld successful anticipation of the Central assistance.
Despite repeated representations by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and himself, the Centre had not sanctioned adjacent a azygous agrarian location for Telangana truthful far.
The Minister said implicit 3.5 lakh houses had been sanctioned successful the archetypal signifier of the Indiramma lodging scheme, of which astir 1.32 lakh houses had already been completed. Another 68,000 to 72,000 houses are expected to scope slab level by the extremity of June.
The 2nd signifier of the Indiramma lodging strategy would beryllium launched by the Chief Minister successful Adilabad connected June 2. The authorities is besides readying to widen relaxations successful the 2nd signifier by considering partially constructed houses for assistance nether the scheme.
The Minister said the authorities planned to undertake associated surveys to permanently resoluteness inter-departmental onshore disputes and motorboat broad surveys successful 70 gross villages successful each district. The State has besides initiated steps to code method issues successful registration offices by introducing a caller bundle astatine ₹14.08 crore, which is expected to beryllium operational wrong the adjacent 3 to 4 months.
The Minister alleged that the erstwhile K. Chandrasekhar Rao authorities had accrued onshore prices doubly wrong six months successful an “unscientific manner” successful 2022. The Congress government, helium said, was revising onshore values scientifically based connected adept recommendations.
A survey reportedly recovered that astir 16,000 retired of 38,000 selected beneficiaries had not occupied the allotted houses successful Hyderabad. He besides said the authorities was exploring “one-plus-one” lodging models for brothers constructing houses connected the aforesaid crippled and considering redevelopment of aged colonies specified arsenic Vambay and Rajiv Gruhakalpa, wherever buildings person go structurally weak.
