40,000 houses to come for urban poor in Delhi

Construction of 40,000 houses will be taken up in Delhi for urban poor, economically weaker sections and lower income groups of the city as part of Ministry of Urban Development's agenda for 100 days.

Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of Urban Development S Jaipal Reddy said, "Construction of about 40,000 houses will be taken up. About 10,000 houses are phased to be completed every year from the year 2010 onwards."  He said the DDA will take up in-situ development towards rehabilitation of slum dwellers in next five years for 23 clusters.  

The total number of dwelling units of about 25 square metres will be about 47,500. It will be taken up on a public-private-partnership model and the land which is currently occupied by the slum dwellers will be made available to the developers, the minister said in the written answer.  

These developers will construct houses for the economically weaker sections in accordance with the numbers identified by the DDA.  

Reddy said these houses will be constructed on part of the area while the developer will be allowed to carry out commercial exploitation of the remaining land.