100,000 houses being built for Central Para Military Forces

New Delhi, Mar 23 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs has launched an ambitious mega housing project for the construction of about 100,000 houses across the country for Central Para-Military Forces (CPMF).

This will be done through the public private partnership mode in about four years.esides meeting the housing satisfaction level in the forces, the provision of additional houses for the force personnel is seen as a measure to boost the morale and motivation level of CPMF personnel, which is also expected to contribute to their operational efficiency.

According to an official press release, the housing satisfaction level among Central Para Military Force personnel is 15.4 per cent, which is low and considered to be a demotivating factor.

Until now, the CPWD has been constructing houses for the force personnel and the pace of construction has been less than what is required to meet the authorized satisfaction level of 25 per cent for the force personnel.

By the conventional approach, on an average about 4,000 houses are added every year.

The Ministry of Home Affairs in consultation with the Central Police Force like Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB) and Assam Rifles(AR) have identified 245 sites across the country where land is readily available with the CPMFs.

The release said 30 sites had been taken up on a pilot project basis and notice for Request For Qualification (RFQ) for 30 sites/5 clusters had already been issued on March 10.

The remaining nearly 215 sites are also proposed to be launched in four lots on a staggered basis within the coming financial year, it said. (ANI)