Ramdas: Work on mega house allotment to begin today

NT Correspondent
Mysuru, June 16

The work on distribution of allotment letters to the beneficiaries of ‘House for All’ scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Awaaz Yojana, will be launched tomorrow (Friday), said Krishna Raja MLA S.A.Ramdas. Addressing a news conference here on Thursday, he said already, 12,000 beneficiaries have been identified in this constituency and the Government of India and the Karnataka government have sanctioned 7400 houses.

The loans would be disbursed by State Bank of India and Canara Bank with which an agreement has been signed. For the rest of the beneficiaries, a letter has been written to the Union Housing Minister and Prime Minister’s Office seeking additional allotment of houses for KR Constituency and permission has been granted.

As per the decision taken by PM Modi, along with providing clean air and water to dwellers, one ward would be selected to introduce yoga to each house. In each ward, there would be around 5,000 houses. Along with this, every ward in the constituency would be converted into ‘Total Healthcare ward’ by providing Ayurveda and Allopathy treatment within one year.

This work would start from June 22. Those from KR constituency would be part of the convention of beneficiaries to be held at Maharaja College Ground in which PM Modi, CM Bommai and others will participate. Ramdas said each beneficiary would be given an invitation to the convention and a medicinal plant. This programme would be launched on Friday.