Foundation of Rajiv Awas Yojna in Sirsa to be laid tomorrow

The foundation stone of a housing project aimed at providing shelter to poor in urban areas would be launched in Haryana's Sirsa district tomorrow.
Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Girija Vyas will lay the foundation stone of the Rajiv Awas Yojna at Sirsa in a function which would be presided over by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, an official spokesman said today.
He said that 2,016 houses would be constructed near Kanganpur village over an area of 55,776 square metre and 128 houses would be built over 28,716 square metre in Khaja Khera near auto market.
The carpet area for one house would be 25.61 square meters on which a drawing room, a bed room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet and balcony would be constructed, the spokesman said.

The facilities such as concrete roads, pump station for drinking water, tubewell, sewerage, electricity, boundary facing and rain water harvesting would be provided in housing premises, he said.
A sum of about Rs 11 crore would be spent on providing basic facilities in the entire area. Ownership rights of houses would be given to beneficiaries, he added.
He said a plan has been made to construct 7,474 houses in the state under Rajiv Awas Yojna on which Rs 765.95 crore would be spent.
There is a plan to construct maximum of 3,008 houses in Sirsa. Initially, the state government has given approval for construction of 2,144 houses under first phase of pilot project in Sirsa and a sum of Rs 95 crore would be spent on it, he said.