Police Gruha scheme proposed for extension till 2030, says Home Minister
The Hindu
Home Minister Parameshwara extends Police Gruha scheme till 2030, ensuring quality residential quarters for police personnel.
Assuring of constructing quality residential quarters for police personnel working in the city and rural areas, Home Minister G. Parameshwara said on Friday that he has asked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to extend the Police Gruha scheme till 2030.
Speaking after inaugurating new houses built for police in the city and at Belthangady, Mr. Parameshwara said the Police Gruha ends by 2025. “I have asked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to extend the scheme by five more years. He has agreed.” Chief Minister has sanctioned ₹300 crore in the budget for residential quarters construction work being taken up in 2025-26.
The Home Minister said poor living conditions of police personnel in Bengaluru, Belagavi, and a few other places made him to come up with Police Gruha scheme. To provide house of quality for the personnel, the per unit cost under the scheme has now been put at ₹28 lakh.
As many as 64 flats have been constructed in the new residential apartment that has come up in police lane in Mangaluru. In all, 24 flats have been built in the new police apartment that has come up in Belthangady. Each of these flats have two bed rooms, a living room, a kitchen, a dining place and a modular kitchen. Both apartments were constructed at a cost of ₹21 crore.
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