Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Eatala Rajender has directed the district administration and other authorities concerned to launch the construction of double bedroom housing scheme by July at any cost.
At a meeting with the contractors and masons in Karimnagar town on Thursday, he called upon the contractors to come forward and take up the construction of double bedroom houses for the benefit of poor people.
He said that there would be no loss to the contractors as the government was spending ₹5.30 lakh per house in the urban areas and ₹5.03 lakh in the rural areas. An additional ₹ 1 lakh would be given for laying drains and borewell, he added.
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Besides, the government was taking all measures for the supply of sand free of cost and cement and steel at lower rates, he said and added that the government had set a target of constructing 60,000 double bedroom houses in the district.
Collector Sarfaraz Ahmed said that the district administration would clear the bills on a war-footing for the contractors as there were sufficient funds for the ambitious housing scheme. MLC Naradasu Laxman Rao, MLA Gangula Kamalakar, Irrigation Development Corporation Chairman Eda Shankar Reddy and others were present.
