State Housing and Information & Public Relations Minister Kolusu Parthasarathi has directed officials to take immediate steps to complete the construction of five lakh houses by Ugadi and ensure that beneficiaries are provided with habitable homes without delay.

The minister issued the instructions during a high-level review meeting of the Housing Department held on Saturday at the Andhra Pradesh State Housing Corporation headquarters in Vijayawada. The meeting reviewed the progress of ongoing housing projects across the state and assessed the implementation strategy for timely completion.

Addressing officials, the minister stressed that all necessary arrangements must be made to meet the Ugadi deadline and to organise house-warming programmes for completed units. He said Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has clearly instructed that every eligible poor family must receive a permanent house along with essential infrastructure within the layout.

The minister asked officials to set daily construction targets and monitor progress on a day-to-day basis to ensure deadlines are met. He also instructed field officers to conduct regular inspections and motivate beneficiaries to expedite construction works.

Minister Parthasarathi emphasised that merely completing structures is not sufficient and directed officials to ensure that finished houses are made fully habitable. He instructed the department to facilitate immediate house entry for beneficiaries in completed colonies.

He further ordered that a comprehensive plan be prepared without delay to provide basic infrastructure facilities such as drinking water supply, drainage, internal roads, street lighting, and sanitation in housing layouts. The minister said coordination with the Panchayat Raj, Municipal Administration, Public Health Engineering and other related departments is essential to ensure timely provision of these services.

“The responsibility of officials does not end with construction alone. They must ensure that beneficiaries actually move into the completed houses,” the minister asserted.