Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mohd Mahmood Ali and Cinematography Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav, and Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya laid the foundation stone for the double bedroom flats to come up at Indira Nagar under the Khairatabad constituency, on Monday.
Addressing the gathering later, Yadav said that the State government would construct double bedroom flats for 172 families on a 1.5-acre plot of land there.
The construction of the houses would be completed within one year, Yadav said. The houses would be allotted based on a lottery system after the completion of the construction of the flats.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was keen on developing all slums in Hyderabad, Yadav said, and exhorted the people not to give any money to middlemen as the government would allot the houses directly.