Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Girija Vyas informed that the proposal to assign infrastructure status to affordable housing sector was sent for consideration of ‘Institutional Mechanism (IM) under the Harmonised Master List of Infrastructure sub-sectors’.
The IM was constituted by the Ministry of Finance to consider assigning ‘Infrastructure Status’ to Affordable Housing Sector. The minister said this in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
Meanwhile, the minister said 5.3 lakh households are homeless in urban areas according to the assessment of a technical committee constituted by her ministry to assess housing shortage as on 2012.
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