new delhi the delhi government has decided to construct 72000 lowcost flats in next two years for allotment among slum dwellers and economically weaker section in tune with its plan to make the national capital slumfreetop officials involved in the mega housing project said the ground work for construction of the lowcost flats has already been started and agencies involved in it have been told to expedite process of various clearancesdelhi governments premier infrastructure agency dsiidc will implement the project which has been conceived as part of governments ambitious goal of making the city slumfree in next three to four years they said we have set a target of completing the construction within next two years said a top official of dsiidcthe delhi state industrial infrastructure development corporation dsiidc has already completed construction of 9660 flats in narela dwarka bhorgarh under the jnnurm scheme and another 5184 flats are likely to be completed very soonthe officials said the process of selecting the beneficiaries for around 15000 flats was underway they said people who have settled in a slum or jhughi jhopri cluster not later than march 31 2007 will be eligible to get allotment of the lowcost housesin her annual address to top officials earlier this week dikshit had identified providing roof to slumdwellers as one of the three major priority areas for her government for the coming financial year the government earlier this month had started allotment of around 2200 lowcost flats to industrial workersin the first batch a total of 115 industrial workers were given allotment letters of flats built at narela area of north west delhi the dsiidc has built the flats on no loss no profit the flats have been built under rajiv gandhi housing scheme for industrial workers the remaining 2114 flats will be alloted within next six monthsofficials said government would make available hospitals schools shopping complexes and bus services in the areas where lowcost flats are coming upmeanwhile industries minister ramakant goswami visited the construction site of low cost flats at pootkhurd area of west delhi where a total of 14200 houses are being builtchief managing director of dsiidc chetan b sanghi who accompanied goswami said as per the master plan of delhi 2021 the city would require to construct 75000 low cost flats every year to provide roof to the ews familieshe said contract has been awarded for construction of another 4560 houses at tikri kalan while tender for construction of another 8420 flats is being initiated preparation of the detailed project report for construction of another 4000 houses is underway he saidgoswami said government would start allotment of around 14000 houses from april sanghi said dsiidc has submitted a proposal to the centre for construction of transit accommodation for migrant workersa proposal to construct accommodation for 20000 people has already been submitted to the centre while another proposal for construction of transit accommodation for around 52020 people will be submitted soon sanghi said