With re-elected BRS govt., housing for all and 100% literacy will be priorities, says KTR 

The new scheme will be an addition to the existing 2BHK and Gruhalakshmi housing schemes.

Housing for all as the welfare motive the Bharata Rashtra Samithi, if re-elected to power, will launch an interest subvention scheme for all middle-income groups buying home with living area between 1, 200 – 1, 500 sq. feet, BRS working president and Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K.T. Rama Rao said on Friday.

The new scheme will be an addition to the existing 2BHK and Gruhalakshmi housing schemes. The other priority will be to achieve 100% literacy, he said.

Speaking at The Real Estate Summit 2023 here, he also admitted that Dharani portal, the State Integrated Land Records Management System, has teething issues and an expert consultative committee will be set up to set right the system.

Mr. Rama Rao addressing the convention of real estate and construction industry said the landmark image of Hyderabad, which had been the Charminar, is now the mammoth and aesthetic buildings and towers of west Hyderabad.

“Telangana achieved an integrated, holistic, inclusive and balanced growth in the past nine-and-half-years. The TRS/BRS government in effect, minus 2.5 years COVID and one year for all elections, got just 6.5 years, and the numbers speak for themselves,” he said.

For instance, the IT/ITeS exports rose from ₹57,258 crore in 2014 to ₹2,41,750 crore in 2023. On the contrast, between 1989 and 2014, a 25-year period the same exports were about ₹57,000 crore, he said. Even in paddy production Telangana was 14th in the country in 2014, and in 2022 it stood first, he said.

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