The need for greater involvement of the public agencies

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When considering the demand in Real Estate Trivandrum being the capital city, the major demand always comes from the government servants. Perhaps in no other district in Kerala can you see the presence of the government owned Kerala Housing Development Board in housing development in a major way. When the decentralization process was initiated, the demand for rented rooms declined due to decline in demand with fewer persons traveling to the capital city to get things done. Even then, the public sector can get actively involved in certain tasks and thus effect a major change in the state of affairs. The tasks they can involve in includes:

1.Involving beneficiaries in framing and implementing programmes. Therefore, the new urban development policy should spell out the specific mechanism, whereby the public agencies can promote the involvement of beneficiaries at various stages of implementation of housing schemes.
2.Distributing building materials and components at a reasonable rate and providing technical and advisory services.
3.Engaging people that are displaced due to development programmes like construction of dams, industries, thermal power stations, new townships, etc., both in rural and urban areas.
4.Bringing out necessary changes in legislation for rationalizing and simplifying the existing legislative provisions and procedures relating to land acquisition with a view to institute a fair and speedy process of land acquisition. Efforts are also needed for modifying housing standards and improving the physical environment in a manner that all those provisions that inhabit housing are removed.