Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) is set to allocate houses to the houseless people constructed by Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure Development Company Limited (JUIDCO) on the sprawling premise of Old Jail campus worth Rs 17 crore under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana for urban poor.
It has come as a post-lockdown gift for the poor who will now have their own house.
The G+3 building comprises 180 flats and the project was commissioned in 2015-16 during the regime of Raghubar Das government.
This was the initiative of the state Urban Development department. A large number of poor families were living on the vacant premise of Old Jail besides the adjoining area. This newly built colony has been named as Veer Birsa Nagar situated in the heart of the city capital.
The Urban Development department roped in an NGO Mahila Housing Trust Pvt Ltd to carry out a survey to ascertain the number of poor homeless families living in the area. The NGO submitted a list of 153 families and recommended that they qualify for the PM housing scheme.
The construction work was more or less completed in September last year and the then chief minister had inaugurated the housing project on October 22.
During the last week of March; JUIDCO finally handed over the building to RMC.
“But due to lockdown we could not take any further action in this regard. Now from June 10 we will start the process to handover flats to beneficiaries. Beneficiaries will have to make a notional payment of Rs 50000,” assistant Municipal Commissioner Rajnish Kumar informed The Pioneer.
He said that RMC officials will visit the doorsteps of beneficiaries to handover them flat occupation paper.
Kumar said that allocation of house will be done through lottery.
“We will complete allotment in a phase wise manner. In the first phase a total of 126 beneficiaries were selected. Out of these as many as 71 families have made the necessary payments and the official process has been completed,” said Kumar.
In the next phase, the park will be constructed with a sports facility for children.
