The state housing minister, Mr Goutam Deb, today urged private investors to join hands with the government under the public private partnership model (PPP) to set up housing complexes. He was speaking at a curtain raiser programme organised by the International Association for Housing Science this evening.
Emphasising on the need to construct more low cost and eco friendly houses in the city Mr Deb said: "There is a need for the private partners to construct more low cost houses within the city to accommodate middle class people".
More than 20,000 low cost flats have been constructed at Rajarhat and the state housing department along with their private partner had already begun the construction work.
The West Bengal housing department has already established a land procurement committee comprising of members from all the political parties at Rajarhat to fix the price, which should be given to the farmers who are willing to sell their lands.
Stressing on the need to construct more such low cost flats in rural areas, Mr Deb said: "We are urging more private partners to construct low cost houses in rural areas too so that people do not have to come to the city in search of low cost housing."
Chris Thomas, Chief Operating Officer of Speedwall (www.speedwall.com) added "this model is a necessary and proven method of delivering low cost housing. However along with housing, additional infrastructure needs to be added such as new job opportunities, schools, hospitals and retail outlets need to be added in order to stop further concentrated urbanisation."
A technical expertise team from the department of architecture and regional planning of IIT Kharagpur has been constituted to look after the planning and construction of such flats.
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