CM distributes free flats to slum-dwellers

To rehabilitate people living in slums, the Delhi Urban Shelter improvement Board (DUSIB) allotted 500 houses to slum dwellers on Wednesday.

To rehabilitate people living in slums, the Delhi Urban Shelter improvement Board (DUSIB) allotted 500 houses to slum dwellers on Wednesday. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit gave away the allotment letters to eligible slum dwellers in a function at the Delhi secretariat.

The flats, which have come up at Poot Khurd near Bawana, have been distributed under the scheme of rehabiliting JJ and slum dwellers implemented under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) programme to make national capital slum-free. The allottees got the houses for free, as the Delhi government released the amount equivalent to the allottees contribution, as subsidy.

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These 500 houses are part of 14,000 low-cost flats the government intends to allot to slum dwellers from eight clusters in west and south Delhi. Dikshit said the remaining 13,500 flats are ready for distribution and the process for allotment has started.