new delhi the largestever housing scheme of delhi development authority will be rolled out for city dwellers by july end offering over 26000 flats across various categories with most of them being built with green technology a top official of the housing body today said we have 24000 oneroom apartments and another 2000 2500 flats lined up in the dda 2014 housing scheme the houses will be spread across rohini narela and dwarka and will be priced from rs 1415 lakh to rs 1 crore and we should be able to launch the largestever scheme by julyend dda vicechairman balvinder kumar told pti the muchawaited scheme comes four years after the dda offered over 16000 flats in its 2010 scheme while 24000 flats will be lowcost the remaining 2000 2500 flats will be available across lig mig and hig categories we will soon hold a meeting to discuss whether the oneroom flats would be made available to all or only to the economically weaker sections kumar said talking about the features of the flats he said most of the houses are prefabricated and have green features used for the first time in dda houses they are being built in accordance with the master plan delhi 2021 a senior official said the houses will be located in rohini narela and dwarka and range from fourstoreyed and above according to kumar by july 15000 flats should be ready another major chunk by december end and finally about 1000 will be completed by march next year once the work is over the flats would be made available to the applicants through draw of lots he said meanwhile on the kathputli colony issue kumar said about 400500 families have shifted to the camp we have already issued 700 slips to that effect named after the colourful community of puppeteers and artists kathputli colony is a slum cluster in west delhis shadipur area housing about 3000 families who earn their livelihood by practising their arts these families under the proposed plan which is a publicprivatepartnership ppp project between dda and raheja developers for their insitu rehabilitation were to be shifted to a transit camp at anand parbat until the houses were ready in the colony there were reports that some families had refused to move from the colony as they found the new proposed houses unsuitable to the nature of their work which involved outdoor activities most of the families want to shift and it is only a handful of them with some vested interest who are opposing it a senior dda official said on the landfill sites for managing solid waste in the city kumar said that eight new landfill sites have been identified by dda which can be shared by the corporations he added that one of them is likely to be bawana