Mangalore, Oct 18, 2013 : State Housing Minister Ambarish has said that the government has chalked out an Affordable Housing Policy in order to enable the economically weaker sections own a house.





Speaking to reporters after reviewing the progress of housing schemes at the DC office on October 17, Thursday, Ambarish said the government would be making all out efforts to implement the policy under Public Private Partnership Model. He said 40 per cent of the houses will be offered to economically weaker sections at a lower price while 60 per cent of the houses will go to construction firms.
Ambarish said the scheme has already been discussed at the Cabinet meet and has received its approval. The project would be finalized in two months, he informed.
The Minister also informed that the construction of a total of 5 lakh houses including 11000 houses in DK district have been withheld for violation of rules under the Basava Housing Scheme. He said talks will be held with the CM to end the deadlock.
On the demand to extend the time limit for construction of houses under Basava Housing scheme considering the untimely rains in the district, the minister said the demand would be taken into consideration.
Vasanth Bangera, Moidin Bava, MLAs, ZP President, Koragappa Naik, Principal Secretary of Housing Department Ramana Reddy, DC N Prakash, Rajeev Gandhi Housing Corporation Managing Director Jagadish, Housing Board Commissioner Dr Ravishanker, ZP CEO Tulasi Maddineni, Additional DC Dayananda and others were present.