Mumbai, Nov 25: Maharashtra Housing Minister Atul Save said on Friday that the state government has been planning to effect necessary requisites in the state’s new Housing Policy to make ‘Housing For All’ a reality and also find ways to push new investments in the state’s housing sector.
Speaking at inauguration of second edition of the biggest Housing Expo ‘Homethon 2023’ organised by NAREDCO Maharashtra here, he said that with these alterations to the state’s new Housing Policy, every citizen of the state will get his own house either through MHADA or SRA developments or through other developments.
He also stated that in order to boost affordable housing, the government would also find ways to push new investments in the state’s housing sector.
Also, for speedy clearances for the housing sector, the new policy would emphasise on single-window
clearance and ease-of-doing-business policy like other industries, which would ensure speedy approvals and completion of projects and also safeguard the developers from financial hardships, he said.
The Minister further said that the state government’s focus under the leadership of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar is to ensure a maximum flow of housing in Mumbai and the state and make all the possible support to the state’s real estate sector and bring in new investments.
He said, “As Prime Minister Narendra Modi has envisaged under the PM Awaas Yojana to ensure ‘Housing for All’, the state government believes that every citizen of Maharashtra should get his own house through the MHADA or SRA schemes or otherwise. The government is planning to bring the necessary aspects in the forthcoming new Housing Policy of the state; so that more developers come in the sector, more development and investment happens and housing for all becomes a reality. The real estate and construction sector should get a required priority.”
The Minister stated that many issues pending in the state’s housing sector will be resolved in the new housing policy and informed that 80 per cent draft work of the new policy has been completed and suggestions of the new stakeholders would be considered before finalising the policy.
Other departments like Home, Urban Development, Revenue and SRA have also to be involved in the state policy, he said.
The Minister further stated that the demand for housing in the state needs to be fulfilled with more real estate development taking place and requested developers to come forward for redeveloping SRA & MHADA projects and also support in the second phase of PMAY.
The government’s initiative of providing 10 lakh houses for low-income group (LIG) people in the OBC category was very much on track with full support from the state government, he added.
