somanna: Somanna Greenlights Work Order For 10k Houses | Mysuru News – Times of India

Mysuru: Housing minister V Somanna on Monday directed authorities to issue a work order before February 10 to construct 10,060 houses for beneficiaries under the Basava Housing Scheme and the Dr BR Ambedkar Nivas Yojana for 2021-22.
Speaking during the progress review meeting on various housing programs at the district panchayat auditorium, Somanna directed the authorities to finalize the beneficiaries’ list before January 31 and issue the work order to construct houses before February 10. “Along with the work order, the first installation amount must be distributed to the beneficiaries. To prevent delay in the construction of the houses, the construction amount will be cleared in three installations instead of the regular four,” he said.
Somanna said that as there was pressure on the MLAs and he had sanctioned 20 additional houses for each gram panchayat. “The officials have the responsibility to identify genuine beneficiaries even for the additional houses. The authorities must organize a district-level program from February 12-16 to distribute hakku patra to the beneficiaries who have got houses constructed by the Karnataka Slum Development Board. The authorities must also ensure that the local bodies collect property tax from the owners,” he said.
he mentioned that money could not be transferred to earlier beneficiaries of the Rajiv Gandhi Housing Scheme due to technical issues, but the problem had been resolved and the beneficiaries would get houses in one-and-a-half-months. “We have sanctioned 4 lakh houses in rural areas and 1 lakh in urban areas in the state. The central government has assured to sanction 18 lakh houses for the state in the coming days,” he said.
He also said that the housing department rules had been simplified to benefit people.
Earlier, when MLA Yathindra Siddaramaiah said that a bill has not been cleared for 8,053 under-construction houses in his Varuna constituency, department managing director Basavaraj said that 5.70 lakh houses had been sanctioned under the Rajiv Gandhi Housing Scheme and the bill has been canceled for around 1.55 lakh beneficiaries for failing to construct the houses within the deadline.
While MLC AH Vishwanath demanded Rs 5 lakh for constructing the houses, Periyapatna MLA Anil Chikkamadu demanded houses for the houses Handhi Jogi community.

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