Chg housing schemes: 2 pc quota for HIV patients, transgenders

The Chhattisgarh government has instructed the state housing board to reserve two per cent houses in its schemes for HIV patients and transgenders.
The order in this regard has been issued by the Housing and Environment Department ('Mahanadi Bhawan') to the Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CHB), Raipur, a government spokesperson said here today.
Acting on the order, the CHB has decided to reserve two per cent of the houses for H.I.V. Infected patients and transgenders in their (Board's) colonies, he said.
Cross sections of the society will also be benefited by the policies of the Board, he said.
In the colonies developed by the CHB, there is a six per cent reservation for STs and OBCs each, four per cent for SCs, one per cent each for the CHB employees and families of freedom fighters, besides two per cent each for servicemen, ex-servicemen, widows and journalists, and three per cent for differently-abled persons, the spokesperson added.