Weaker section housing colony progress reviewed

HYDERABAD: Kiran Dhingra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, along with PK Mohanty, Joint Secretary, Housing, inspected the progress of the weaker section housing colony at Abdullapurmet on the city outskirts here today. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) had taken up construction of over 20,000 houses for weaker sections at different places in the city under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), GHMC Commissioner S P Singh said.

The officials also visited several projects in the city taken up under the JNNURM scheme and reviewed their progress with the municipal administration officials. Later, they inspected the housing colony where 5,000 houses were nearing completion at Abdullapurmet near here and expressed satisfaction over the quality of construction.

As many as 25,000 people would live here and it was proposed to be inaugurated soon, he said.