Gujarat CM, Union Urban Development Minister attend CREDAI oath taking ceremony

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today said that it is high time the real estate developers and builders took the responsibility to generate confidence among the poor and middleclass families invested their lifetime savings in the government’s ‘affordable housing’ scheme.

He was speaking at a function of Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) ceremony at Mahatma Mandir here to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for affordable housing and oath taking ceremony of the new team led by Mr. Jaxay Shah as the national president.

Prominent among those present at the ceremony were Union Urban Development Minister Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, Gujarat’s Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, Minister of State for Urban Development Shankarbhai Chaudhry, the immediate past president, besides the new team.

Mr. Rupani recalled how Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched a mega humanitarian campaign to help provide housing for the poor, have-nots and oppressed in the country by 2022, rising above the previous governments’ call for ‘Roti, Kapada, Makan’ which was eventually reduced to a mere slogan. The Gujarat Government has also launched the Chief Minister’s Housing Scheme with a commitment to relax NA, provide online building permission and loan up to Rs.3.50-lakh for residential units up to 125 square feet area.

He said the State Government has taken a historic decision to transfer the rights to the idle land being occupied by the poor and middle class people for generations in their name, thus providing 33.84 lakh square metre land and residential facility to 70,000 families.

As part of the newly enacted Common General Development Control Regulation (GDCR), he said that his government is committed to ensure that no sooner than the Town Planning (TP) Scheme is finalized, the building plan should be approved and building construction should begin.

Mr. Rupani expressed happiness at Gujarat alone signing as many as 145 MoUs out of 375 MoUs for affordable housing across the country. His government thinks that livelihood and housing as the basic rights of the people.

Congratulating the CREDAI new team, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu appealed to the private sector to implement affordable housing scheme as a people’s campaign through public-private partnership (PPP) by 2022, alongside other basic infrastructure, to live up to the Prime Minister’s call for ‘Reform, Perform and Transform’ in working style to provide good governance.

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