The Centre on Thursday sanctioned 36,254 houses for Karnataka at an investment of Rs 1,468 crore under various sponsored schemes.
An inter-ministerial committee chaired by Secretary, Housing and Poverty Alleviation, Nandita Mukherjee, approved construction of 12,371 houses for Karnataka under the Affordable Housing in Partnership component of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) for rehabilitating slum dwellers.
Another 23,883 houses will be built in 207 cities and towns for urban poor under the Beneficiary Led Construction component of PMAY (Urban).
The Central government will provide an assistance of Rs 558 crore for construction of these houses for urban poor in Karnataka.
In the last fiscal, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation approved construction of 16,522 houses for urban poor in Karnataka taking the total number of houses approved for the benefit of urban poor so far to 53,776.
Published 11 August 2016, 19:14 IST