Chitwan. Bharatpur Metropolitan City is going to build houses for the poor. The Metropolitan City has started a program to build houses for the poor from this year. One hundred and thirty-nine beneficiaries have been selected under the same program.
According to Metropolitan City Mayor Renu Dahal, the plan is for the Metropolitan City to build houses for the residents of the city who have not been able to build safe houses. She informed that the program was started by publishing it in the local gazette after a decision was taken in the executive meeting on Mangsir 13.
According to Dahal, an amount of Rs. 10 million has been allocated in the current fiscal year. She informed that houses will be built gradually based on the priorities of the selected beneficiaries.
Under this program, the Metropolitan Mayor Dahal said that the program has been implemented to build and hand over safe housing to poor families to protect, uplift, empower and develop the poor citizens living in the metropolis.
Member of the program, Engineer Sakar Lama, informed that the ‘Bharatpur Metropolitan Mayor Poor Housing Program Procedure’ has been prepared and implemented. According to him, the beneficiaries have been selected under the program.
Say that the on-site monitoring has been completed by collecting the data of the beneficiaries from the ward offices, he said, ‘More than five hundred beneficiaries had submitted application forms. After on-site monitoring, one hundred and thirty-nine people have been selected.’ According to the procedure, houses will be constructed for those falling under nine indicators.
‘Under the said program, the house will have two rooms and a toilet. The house will be roofed with tin. Beneficiaries who have white certificates, can obtain land ownership certificates, have been recommended by the ward as public land without disputes, and have not encroached on forest, lake, river and canal land have been included in the program, Engineer Lama said.
He said that housing will be constructed under ‘One House, One Family’.
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