Over 10,000 homes to be given to the poor, promises CM

Qaim Ali Shah claims that 50,000 plots will also be distributed among the needy.

KARACHI: Around 10,000 two-room houses will be allotted to poor and needy families in Sindh during the next three months, said Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah in a meeting on Monday.

The minister discussed the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Housing Programme and directed officials from various districts to monitor its implementation.

According to the programme, 50,000 plots of land will also be distributed among the poor. Another that 5,000 of the plots will be given to the city’s residents on January 5, the birth anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party.



The chief minister pointed out that the houses being constructed by the governments of Turkey and Iran will also be distributed among flood victims in Thatta, Badin, Jacobabad, Shikarpur, Kashmore and Khairpur.

The chairperson of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Housing Cell (SBBHC), Manzar Abbas, said that Rs3 billion had been invested by them since 2008 in the construction of low-cost and energy efficient homes in Sindh. The chairperson claimed that 200 houses had been built by SBBHC in Larkana, Khairpur, Sukkur, Shikarpur and Jacobabad and 91 had been built in a Janoji, a village near Saleh Pat that was destroyed in a fire.



According to Abbas, SBBHC is overseeing the construction of 368 flats that were initially being built by the Pakistan Housing Authority in Landhi. He also mentioned that President Asif Ali Zardari had distributed allotment letters and keys of houses to155 families whose relatives died in the October 18 and December 27 blasts in 2007.

Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon also attended the meeting.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 18^th, 2012.