10 per cent reservation for service sector in urban areas

Mysore, Dec 30 (UNI) The Karnataka government will bring in necessary amendment to the urban Land Ceiling Act to reserve 10 per cent land for the service sector in the urban areas, Minister for Housing D T Jayakumar said today.

Talking to newsmen here, he said that the amendment would be moved in the Winter Session of the Assembly beginning from January 25.

The amendment would help the people in the Service Sectors who were deprived of houses in urban areas. Houses would be provided at subsidised rates. It would also help in eradicating slums in the urban areas.

He said that next month identification of beneficiaries under Ashraya Housing Scheme would be taken up by each Grama Panchayat and the list of beneficiaries will be submitted by January 31.

The houses would be distributed by March end. The Government has decided to provide 7.28 lakh house during this year at a cost of Rs 900 Crore. Already Rs 300 crores have been released for the first phase of the project.

Mr Jayakumar said that according to a survey conducted in 2003, there were nearly 13.5 lakh homeless people and 12 lakh were landless in the state. The government proposes to provide both house and sites to all in another three year time. ''The government proposes to make the state slum less by 2015,'' he added.

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