BANGALORE: The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is taking up an ambitious programme of constructing two lakh houses around the city to solve the problem of housing.

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The details of the plan and the number of houses will be announced in January next. The last housing project implemented 20 years ago was in B.T.M. Layout and Nandini Layout.

Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy clarified that the land which will be recovered by the Special Enforcement Cell from encroachers would not be used for the purpose.

Mr. Kumaraswamy, who reviewed the performance of the Housing Department, said that the Karnataka Housing Board had completed 60 of the 100 projects taken up across the State at a cost of Rs. 849 crore. It would form 25,751 sites and build 6,447 houses.

The board had submitted proposals in respect of 30 other projects too.

He also announced construction of six lakh houses for families below the poverty line during the current financial year. As many as 91,036 houses were built till November last and 3.5 lakh houses will be completed in January next.

Each village panchayat would be given 60 houses and the list of 3,39,120 beneficiaries will be finalised by January 15. They will get houses before March 31, he said.

Mr. Kumaraswamy said that 15,000 Devadasi families and physically handicapped persons and 6,000 flood-affected families would get houses. Funds would be released to the urban local bodies for the purpose. BPL families who owned sites in urban areas would be given financial assistance for constructing houses under the Ashraya scheme, he said.

Under a public-private partnership, 24 projects would be taken up and 25 per cent of the houses would be given to those in the BPL category, he added.

It had been decided to increase the intake by 15 students in each of the Backward Classes hostels.

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