T E Narasimhan / Chennai April 07, 2009, 0:49 IST

The corpus of Rural Housing Fund (RHF), a scheme set up by the National Housing Bank (NHB) to provide refinance for rural housing, has been doubled to Rs 2,000 crore.

NHB Chairman and Managing Director S Sridhar told Business Standard that in July 2008 the corpus was Rs 1,000 crore, which has now been increased to Rs 2,000 crore.