New Delhi: The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board
(DUSIB) today took many major decisions which includes to accelerate the pace
of allotment of already constructed low cost houses, approval to a new project
for construction of additional 40,000 flats for urban poor at two different
locations, approval to four more projects for construction of around 6200 flats
at various places and allotment of around 14,000 low cost flats by September
this year.The 8th Meeting
of the Board was chaired by the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
While briefing the media after the Meeting, Dikshit
stated that the city government is keen to accelerate the pace of allotment of
already constructed flats at the earliest. The Board has chalked out a
schedule to organize camps for different JJ clusters to determine eligibility
of the beneficiaries. It has been clearing around 200 cases every
day. The schedule for the month of May and June has been prepared.
This will
involve around 30 clusters wherein more than 3900 cases are to be cleared for
allotment on in-situ basis. In order to make the camp successful, the
residents in clusters are being informed and educated well-in advance so that
they can come prepared with necessary documents. The Board has expressed
its eagerness to allot around 14,000 low cost flats by September this year.
Out of this, allotment of around 4000 flats would be done at the earliest for
which identification of eligibility is in full swing in the camps.
Apart from this, the Board has already constructed
14,000 flats under JNNURM and around 48,000 flats are under-construction at
these sites. Smt. Dikshit also stated that the Board has approved another
four projects for construction of around 6200 EWS flats under Rajiv Awas Yojana and in-situ re-development scheme of
JJ clusters. 2880 flats would be developed under Rajiv Awas Yojana at Sultanpuri over around 6 hectare land wherein 15
JJ clusters will be rehabilitated to make the entire Sultanpuri Assembly Constituency slum-free.
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