Bhubaneswar, March 30 -- Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Sunday launched the Antadoya Gruha Yojana at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district to provide pucca houses to poor people.
Addressing a function, the Chief Minister said the scheme would give hope and assurance to every family in rural area to live with dignity.
Majhi said on the first day today work order for the construction of 60,000 houses under the scheme has been issued. A target has been fixed to construct more than five lakh houses in the next three years.
A budgetary provision of Rs 2600 crore has been made for the implementation of the scheme in the current year. In the next three years Rs 7550 crore would be spent for the purpose.
A sum of Rs 1.20 lakh would be...