As a matter of fact, the lower income families have a reason to rejoice as Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) has decided to build over 10,000 affordable homes in the city. It will later build another 4,057 homes in areas like Wanjri, Bharatwada-Punapur, Tarodi and Khurd under Pradhan Mantri Gharkul Awas Yojana. NIT trustee Bhushan Shingane said that the civic agency's construction estimate was 19,260 per square metre as three agencies have agreed to work at this rate and the trust has divided the work among them. The houses will be built on no profit, no loss basis and the beneficiary will not be able to sell the houses without NIT's permission for 15 years. As many as 5,142 houses would be built in Mouza Wanjri, 4,152 in Mouza Bharatwada-Punapur, 2,960 in Mouza Tarodi and 1,760 in Mouza Khurdand that the total comes to 14,057, said trust sources.
