Bengaluru: The State Government will build pre-fabricated houses in over 42 acres of land to rehabilitate around 750 families who are rendered homeless due to floods and landslides in Kodagu district. The government would evolve a separate policy for regulating residential structures in hilly terrain in the district.
Minister for Housing and Urban Development U.T. Khader said in Bengaluru yesterday that the government had already finalised various schemes for the displaced. The Housing Department would build these dwellings, planned to match topography and withstand natural disasters. Around 1,120 houses were damaged in the recent floods and landslides and of them, 186 were completely destroyed. Around 6,500 people were rendered homeless.
