Karnataka govt's homes for poverty-stricken project gets poor response

Karnataka govt's homes for poverty-stricken project gets poor response

Bengaluru

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's pet project of building one hundred thousand homes for the urban poor in Bengaluru is troubled to create a begin.

Reason: There don't seem to be enough takers for the homes.

But the government is pushing exhausting to induce the project moving before the dates to the state assembly elections area unit proclaimed and also the election code of conduct comes into play.

The bold public housing was 1st proclaimed within the 2017 State Budget. Besides, the govt. additionallyissued associate order to implement the theme on Gregorian calendar month ten. though those at the helm area unit hopeful of beginning the work before election dates area unit declared, there don't seem to be enough beneficiaries WHO have applied for the homes. the web application method, that has been created necessarywithin the interest of transparency, might otherwise be the perpetrator.

The Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Corporation Ltd (RGRHCL), the nodal agency to implement the theme, invited on-line applications within the 1st week of Gregorian calendar month. It set January five because the last date to submit applications. Poor response from the beneficiaries created the agency revise the point in time doubly. The new point in time is ready for January thirty one.

As on January twenty three, RGRHCL received solely twenty six,619 applications, simply a fourth of the overallhomes to be designed.

Although there's an enormous unmet demand, the response is poor, admitted HousingBoard Principal Secretary Kapil Mohan. that's the rationale for extending the point in time, he said, maintaining: "Tenders are floated for the development of homes and that we hope to begin the development by third week of Gregorian calendar month."

The Principal Secretary aforesaid that it'd take a minimum of 10-12 months to finish the structures once the work begins. The RGRHCL floated a young on January twelve to construct one,936 homes in 2 packages. The last date to participate within the bidding is Gregorian calendar month.

12. Slum Janandolana state caller A Narasimha Murthy, WHO has helped residents of the many informal settlements to use for the theme, aforesaid that lack of awareness and also the sophisticated on-line method were preventing beneficiaries from applying.

"Most of the slum-dwellers in Bengaluru don't possess the documents that area unit necessary to use on-line. as a result of this, it's principally the conservative those that are attempting to induce the profit. they're applying on-line for this public housing," he said.

RGRHCL has created arrangements in BBMP zonal offices and a couple of alternative registered centres for beneficiaries to use on-line.