KCR Distributes First Free Two-Bedroom Houses

The KCR government's flagship programme of distributing two-bedroom houses among the poor was launched on Monday by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao along with Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatraya at IDH Colony of Secunderabad's Boiguda.

The double-bedroom houses, a brainchild of KCR, have been built with all basic amenities like roads, drainage, water and power. Each house has 580 sq ft built-up area with all facilities.

The Chief Minister gave away house site pattas to 396 beneficiaries at a specially arranged programme. The new owners went into raptures as they received the pattas.

To add to their happiness, the Chief Minister had lunch with the beneficiaries and local people along with ministers and legislators.

Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister claimed that it was history being made in India that the poor got (reconstructed) permanent accommodation. "I am happy to see you entering your own two-bedroom houses built as per our promise," he said.

400 similar houses would be built in each Assembly segment for the poor, an elated KCR declared amid applause.

The Chief Minister criticized the previous governments of the last 60 years for failing to build such houses for the poor. However, the 18-month-old TRS government had turned a benchmark for the nation by providing permanent shelter to the poor, he claimed.

It is rare that a government project is announced and completed within the term of an elected government. It so happened that during one of his visits, KCR saw abysmal conditions at a slum in Bhoiguda and immediately announced the construction of double-bedroom flats for the slum-dwellers.

The colony is a segment of the Sanathnagar assembly constituency, whose MLA is Talasani Srinivas Yadav is holding the commercial taxes ministry, and that may just have expedited things.

Hitherto the Central and State governments used to construct houses for the poor in faraway places due to which most of the colonies were left unoccupied and abandoned.

The Bhoiguda colony was scheduled to be inaugurated on October 22, but with KCR attending the Amaravati foundation ceremony in Andhra Pradesh, the program was rescheduled for November 16.

Ministers Nayani Narsimha Reddy and Srinivas Yadav, Secunderabad MLA Padma Rao Goud, Tandur MLA Mahender Reddy and others attended the ceremony.