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Cuttack: Slum dwellers and people from financially weaker sections in the city will soon get to live in concrete houses with provisions of water supply, electricity, toilet, sewerage system and road connectivity.
Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) and Cuttack Development Authority (CDA) have jointly prepared a blueprint to construct concrete houses for slum dwellers and the poor under the Housing for All scheme, said sources.
The two civic bodies plan to construct a 30-sqm house for each family of slum dwellers and the poor of the city as per the National Building Code. Selection of beneficiaries for the scheme will start shortly, and it will be completed before 2022, said a CDA official.
CDA sources said slum dwellers and poor families having no concrete houses in their possession in any part of the country will be eligible for the housing scheme. Poor people with an annual income of less than `1.8 lakh will be included under the scheme, which is funded jointly by the Centre and the state government. Slums where at least 60 to 70 families live and where there is no provision of toilet and safe drinking water will also be included under the scheme on a priority basis, said CMC sources.
“According to the official guidelines, the concrete houses will be allotted in the name of the senior-most female members of the beneficiary families. Houses can be allotted in the name of the senior-most male members of beneficiary families that have no adult female members,” said a CMC official.
Sources said the city has 24,000 slum-dwelling families with a total population of 1.2 lakh. Earlier, the civic bodies had conducted a survey to identify slum-dwelling families to be included under Rajiv Awas Yojana of the central government. However, the scheme was subsequently abandoned.
