Updated On: 03 December, 2009 02:58 PM IST | | PTI
The government on Thursday said it wants to make the country free of slums in next five years through a housing scheme for urban poor.
The government on Thursday said it wants to make the country free of slums in next five years through a housing scheme for urban poor.
Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Urban Development Saugata Roy said a housing scheme for the urban poor has been envisaged to help people living in slums get their own houses.