Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Thursday, August 17, announced its decision to allot around 10000 double bedroom (2BHK) houses to the poor living on Musi river banks in the city.
The state government said that these houses would be provided to the Musi bank dwellers in areas with basic facilities.
The move will also help in removing encroachments on the Musi river bunds, it added.
The call was taken in a meeting of MLAs under the GHMC limits which was headed by state Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD)minister K T Rama Rao (KTR).
“The MLAs unanimously requested the allocation of these houses to the poor living in dire conditions on the banks of river Musi. Several ideas regarding the city’s development were discussed in this meeting,” the government further said.
In the meeting, KTR said that the people live on the Musi river bank due to extreme poverty and the move wiLL bring ‘great relief’ to their lives.
“Along with the 2BHK allocation, measures required to prevent river flooding with plans drawn for the future. Once the encroachments are removed, the Musi riverfront project works can be set in motion. The preliminary planning for the project is already completed by the state government,” he said.
The move comes a day after MA&UD minister K T Rama Rao’s decision to distribute 70000 double-bedroom houses (2BHK) which are ready to go, in five to six phases.
The MA&UD minister had said that as against the target to construct one lakh 2BHK houses in the GHMC limits, 75,000 double-bedroom houses were constructed. “Of these, nearly 4,500 houses were already handed over to in-situ beneficiaries,” he added.
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