T.N. govt. to launch a housing scheme for construction workers
The Hindu
Beneficiaries will be given an assistance of ₹4 lakh each
The State government has decided to launch a housing scheme for construction workers under which beneficiaries will be given an assistance of ₹4 lakh each.
Meant for registered members of the Tamil Nadu Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, the scheme can be used for either building houses on lands of beneficiaries or purchasing tenements built by the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board.
There are two streams under the scheme, one of which is a beneficiary-led contribution and the other is the purchase of tenements of the Urban Habitat Development Board. In the first stream, the minimum size of house is 300 square feet, for which the unit cost of ₹2.76 lakh and the additional cost of ₹1.24 lakh will be sanctioned.