Housing board to build 50,000 houses for EWS

Tribune news service
The Haryana Housing Board has launched a massive housing programme for the construction of 50,000 affordable houses for the economically weaker section (EWS), BPL and other categories over the next two years. Construction of about 30,000 houses has already started.

A spokesman of the board said here today that the total cost of the project was likely to be over Rs 2,250 crore.
The construction of 22,600 houses was in progress at Ambala City, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Jind, Fatehabad, Ratia, Hansi, Tohana, Hisar, Sirsa, Sonepat, Barhi, Gurgaon, Narnaul, Rewari, Faridabad, Palwal, Sisoth, Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh and Rohtak.

He said the registration for 6,892 houses had been floated recently, which included 1,506 houses for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes at Dadri.

About houses for the EWS and BPL categories , he said the houses would comprise two rooms with a 300 square feet covered area and cost about Rs 4.50 lakh per unit.