Hyderabad: Revenue, Housing and Information & Public Relations Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy on Wednesday said the Telangana government would soon invite tenders for Indiramma houses in Hyderabad’s CURE area. He said officials would complete land acquisition for the project within two to three days.
The minister said the government planned to build one lakh Indiramma houses within the Inner Ring Road limits under the Comprehensive Urban Renewal and Expansion (CURE) project. He added that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had directed officials to speed up the process.
Indiramma houses planned in 19 constituencies
Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy distributed ownership documents to beneficiaries of completed double-bedroom houses in Goshamahal. Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar, Mohammed Azharuddin and Adluri Laxman, MP Anil Kumar Yadav and MLA T. Raja Singh attended the programme.
The minister said the Congress government aimed to provide a house to every poor family. Therefore, it would launch a pilot project in 19 Assembly constituencies. Each constituency would receive between 500 and 1,000 houses in the first phase.
Later, the government would sanction additional houses in subsequent phases, he added.
Indiramma houses to remain within city limits
The minister recalled that the government had already allocated up to 5,500 houses to every rural Assembly constituency. He said the government would also build houses in urban areas despite land prices ranging from ₹100 crore to ₹200 crore per acre.
Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy said the government completed 125 unfinished double-bedroom houses at Dhoolpet. He said the previous government had left those houses incomplete. He also directed the district collector to identify more land for additional housing projects in the area.
The minister said the government would not shift poor families 30 kilometres away from cities. Instead, it would provide houses close to their livelihoods and within their own constituencies.
He also claimed that the Congress government would build more houses in two-and-a-half years than the BRS government built in ten years. He accused the previous government of focusing on large projects instead of housing for the poor.