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7,400 houses for slum-dwellers [1]

The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Wednesday approved construction of 7,400 houses for slum-dwellers under the Economically Weaker Section category at Bhalaswa Jahangirpuri.

At a meeting in Delhi Secretariat, the Board also gave its nod for construction of a community hall at Trilokpuri and passed its budget for the year 2012-13. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who chaired the meeting of the Board, said the EWS houses would have five floors and would come up at a cost of Rs 356.79 crore.

Publication Date: 
05/07/2012
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Housing Construction [3], Slums [4], Water Supply [5], Sanitation [6], Housing [7], Drainage [8], Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) [9], Slum Upgrading [10], Habitat And Urbanisation [11], Delhi [12]
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