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LDA Vice-Chairman Mukesh Kumar Meshram said on Tuesday the flats would be provided to those slum-dwellers who had erected shanties on land not exceeding 33 square metre area in a slum on government land. Meshram said each flat would cost over Rs 2 lakh.
In its survey, the LDA has identified over 2,600 such shanties in 26 slums in the state capital, he said.
Another official said these will be four-storey flats, each having two rooms, a kitchen with a toilet and a bathroom, built on 30 square metre. He said the decision to give houses, not just land ownership rights, had been taken to provide maximum benefit to the poor residing in the slums. The flats will be built in those slums which had enough land to construct at least 400 flats, he said. However, certain aspects of the scheme are not clear. What will the government do if the number of eligible families in a slum was less than 400 hundred? In most of the slums, the number of the eligible families is small because the size of most of the dwellings exceeds 33 sq m. Also, when the eligible families are rehabilitated, the government cannot use the land unless other slum-dwellers are also moved out. How is the government going to do it? An LDA official said that in case a dwelling covers more than 33 sq m, then each adult member will be considered a family unit. They will all get rehabilitated if the share of each unit is less than 33 sq m. But still many families may remain ineligible. The officer agreed that several matters needed to be sorted out before the scheme can be implemented. Before liberalising the scheme, the government had done away with the condition of owning a BPL card and proof of identity and residence to get ownership rights of land.
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