The Government on Thursday said foreign direct investment will not be allowed in housing projects for urban poor.
The minister was speaking at a seminar on low cost housing, organised by the Indian Building Congress.
The government on Thursday said it wants to make the country free of slums in the 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.
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