With a view to provide affordable shelter to the people, Haryana Housing Board has been entrusted with the task of constructing 50,000 dwelling units.
The Housing Board will also construct two lakh additional dwelling units to achieve the target set by Union ministry of urban employment and poverty alleviation under National Housing and Habitat Policy, 2006 to provide
affordable shelter to all by the year 2020.
While stating this on the occasion of World Habitat Day, Haryana chief minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that new housing colonies will also be set up across the state. The villagers being offered fixed rate by the government, will be given priority for the allotment of dwelling units.
The houses will ensure better habitable environment with facilities like water, electricity, sanitation, convenient shopping and entertainment, schools and health care. This will also upgrade the living standard of the slum dwellers and the poor, but also help in checking migration to big towns and cities, he added. October 1 also being the World Blood Donation Day, the chief minister also urged the people to donate their blood voluntarily to save precious lives.
Hooda described blood donation as the greatest gift one can do for the mankind, on the occassion. He said that voluntary blood donors being the saviors of mankind, one must donate blood voluntarily to gift a new life to those in need.