Layouts to be built under pvt-govt partnership: Min Somanna

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Housing Board has decided not to develop new layouts in the future.

Speaking to the media, State Housing Minister V Somanna has said, “It’s become a difficult task to purchase land. We are not getting the necessary land for making layouts and moreover, the land and its acquisitions rates have touched the sky. If any landowner with atleast 50 acres comes forward, the government is ready for the partnership”.

“In the urban area with co-operation from private players, the government will build 50:50 layout in urban and 60:40 in rural areas. The housing board has decided to hand over 6,015 layouts in several districts, in a span of three months to the applicants”, he added.

Meanwhile, Somanna said that under Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s plan of the ‘one lakh house’ scheme for the poor, 48,000 houses were already in the construction process out of which 1,967 houses would be handed over to the beneficiaries this month. He said that by the end of the year around 20,000 houses would be handed over.