HC notices over non-allotment of double bedroom houses

The Telangana High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the State government and others to explain within four weeks why the nearly one lakh double bedroom houses built by the State government were no

The Telangana High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the State government and others to explain within four weeks why the nearly one lakh double bedroom houses built by the State government were not being allocated to beneficiaries despite completion of construction.

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice A. Rajasheker Reddy passed the direction, after hearing a PIL petition. In addition to the State government represented by the Chief Secretary, notices were issued to Housing Secretary, vice-chairman and managing director of Housing Corporation, GHMC Commissioner, Housing and Urban Development Corporation chairman and Collectors of all 33 districts in the State.

The petition was filed by N. Indrasena Reddy, former MLA and BJP leader, stating that the government had not allotted the completed houses to the beneficiaries for the past one year. According to the petitioner, 1,00,087 houses were ready for occupation but the government chose to allot only 12,656 of them to the beneficiaries, the petitioner’s counsel Srujan Kumar Reddy said.