Q: Hello there, last year when i was in Indore, i happened to hear about the Affordable Housing Scheme that was proposed. I am really interested to know if there are any developments in that direction?
Hey, there are also other joint-plans from the part of IDA and IMC. one of them is to construct the multi-storied apartment housing on the land of the slum dwellers. The plan is to rehabilitate the same slum dwellers in those flats itself. this means that the city will at some time become slum-free and i am happy for that.
Wasn't this is the recent news. I read about this. they said that they will start the project all over again by March 2015. IDA did not get the government land and next year they are planning to construct affordable houses in their own land.
but, i think the IDA has identified some land in different part of the city for construction of around 5,000 units. The delay in starting the project is because the govt. lands were not available. Moreover, the price for land acquisition and the cost of construction materials has gone really high.
Yep, there was much hype and publicity given to the Affordable Housing Scheme for the poor in 2013. The Indore Development Authority (IDA) had promised to construct 30,000 affordable houses in five years and around 6,000 houses in a year. but, it seems to be a distant dream at present.