
Indiramma houses being constructed as planned: ponguleti
He said unlike the Centre, which was offering Rs 72,000 for each house in rural areas and Rs 1.52 lakh in urban areas, would not support the housing costs. But the State government's Rs 5 lakh in the first phase is helping the poor.
He said that a survey has also been conducted as per the instructions of the Centre and this is in the final stage. In fact, the state government's norms for identifying the beneficiary were stricter, when compared to that of the Centre's.
He expressed satisfaction that the construction work of the houses is also progressing at the expected pace. He said that the previous government had constructed double bedroom houses unscientifically and many housing units were incomplete and did not even have minimum facilities. All these houses will be repaired and facilities will be created and allocated to the beneficiaries.

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