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One Lakh Housing Scheme

 

‘ONE LAKH HOUSES SCHEME’ was launched by the Government of Kerala in 1972.  The cost of construction of each house was fixed between the range of Rs. 1250/- and Rs. 1500/-.  It was also decided that a house with 2 rooms and a kitchen within an area of 250 sq.ft. should be provided to each family.  The decision was to construct and distribute the houses to the beneficiaries free of cost.  However in order to create a feeling of involvement of the beneficiaries, the panchayats were directed to realize Rs.110/- from each allottee. The entire amount spent for the purchase of land and development of house-sites was received as subsidy from the Government of India.

There were 960 panchayats in the state and it was decided to construct 100 houses in each panchayats, thus making a total target of 96000 units. The present condition of most of the houses so constructed are very pathetic mainly because of three decades of aging without routine repairs and maintenance.

According to the details collected from the Directorate of Panchayats there are a total of 90208 houses under the scheme.  Of this, about 57590 are single houses and 16309 are duplex houses (for 32618 families). The Kerala State Housing Board  propose to implement a scheme for the renovation/repair of the single units and also reconstruction of the duplex houses to single houses.Details of houses constructed in all the districts are shown in the table below

Sl No	District	Number of single Houses	Number of Duplex Houses	Total number of Houses
1	Thiruvananthapuram	9845	4256	14101
2	Kollam	1629	1994	3623
3	Pathanamthitta	3812	2348	6160
4	Alappuza	1485	650	2135
5	Kottayam	2268	2232	4500
6	Idukki	1830	795	2625
7	Ernakulam	9614	3358	12972
8	Trissur	4725	4368	9093
9	Palakkad	2211	1379	3590
10	Malappuram	1287	1538	2825
11	Kozhikkode	3160	2920	6080
12	Wayanad	5875	1763	7638
13	Kannur	3110	2688	5798
14	Kasargode	6739	2329	9068
Total		57590	32618	90208