Babulal Gaur has instructed officer for speedy implementation of Rajiv Awas Yojana

To make cities slums free Babulal Gaur has instructed officers for fast implementation of Rajiv Awas Yojana.

“This Union Government project is quite useful for the urban poor. The project should be implemented speedily in the selected cities of the state, said Gaur.” Gaur was addressed an orientation workshop under the project at the auditorium of Urban Administration and Development Directorate.

Babulal Gaur Urban Administration Minister said that major cities in the state should be rid of slums by taking advantage of the Union Government’s Rajiv Awas Yojana. He said that officers should also see to it that no new slums come up in the cities.

On the occasion people present there includes Principal Secretary Urban Administration and Development S.P.S Parihar, Director Rajiv Awas Yojana Deepti Goud Mukherjee, Director Project Uday Kalpana Shrivastava, commissioners and additional commissioners of municipal corporations and officers of the Urban Administrationand Development Department.

The five cities – Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwaliorand Ujjain – have been selected in the first phase of Rajiv Awas Yojana in the state. Detailed project report of these cities will be prepared within one and a half months. Out of these cities, the DPR of Indore Municipal Corporation almost complete, Commissioner Urban Administration S.N. Mishra informed during the workshop.

Deepti Goud Mukherjee Director of Union Government’s Rajiv Awas Yojana said that the project has been launched with a view to providing clean and healthy residences to the urban poors of slum areas. The Union Government will provide 50 percent of the cost as subsidy to be incurred on the construction of these houses. The rest 50 percent cost will be borne by state government and the municipal corporation concerned and the beneficiary. The share of the beneficiary will be 10 percent.She informed that the Union Government will provide assistance under Rajiv Awas Yojana to only those states, which have given ownership rights to slum dwellers.

The scheme will be taken up first in the cities having more than three lakh population. Hundred crore rupees will be given first to the five states that take initiative in this direction each for construction of houses under the project.