Achivements
The main aim of the Housing Board is to develop the housing colonies at
various places of the State under different housing schemes like
Social
Housing Schemes, Self Financing Schemes, Rental
Housing Schemes for HP Government employees, Police Personnel by taking
loan from Financial Institutions like HUDCO, National Housing Bank.
Board has also executed prestigious deposit projects of Tourism, Urban
Development, Education Department, Jawahar Navodya Vidyalayas & DIETs
etc.The Board has developed an industrial township at Parwanoo, which
is the Gateway to Himachal Pradesh. Undoubtedly, Parwanoo is the
only industrial township in the State, where Board has created the compact
infrastructure required for an industrial township i.e. planned industrial
plots, residential and commercial complexes. The Board can also
take credit for planning and construction of some of the prestigious projects
like designing and construction of H.P. Institute of Public Administration
complexes at Fairlawns near Shimla, Hotel Holiday Home at Shimla, other
hotels of Tourism department at Parwanoo, Mandi and Paonta Sahib.
Commercial complexes at Mandi and Hamirpur. District Institutes of Education
and Training (DIET) Buildings and Hostel at Shimla, Chamba, Mandi, Nahan,
Solan, Kullu & Una at a cost of nearly 7.00 crores. TRISEM Hostel
for RID department, 80 staff quarters for Board of School Education Dharamsala
at a cost of over 2.00 crores, Jawahar Navodya Vidyalyas at Nahan, Una,
Paprola & Pandoh at a cost of nearly 10.00 crores, 8 Nos. barracks
and other allied buildings of jail at Kanda near Shimla. For providing adequate shelter to the poor hill people of this
Pradesh, Social as well as Self Financing Housing Colonies have
been set up at Shimla (Knollswood, Jakhoo, Kelston, Strawberry Hills,
Shoghi and Sanjauli), Rampur & Rohroo in Shimla
district , Parwanoo, Baddi, Solan in Solan district
Nahan, Paonta Sahib in Sirmour district, Una & Bangana in
Una
District, Palampur, Dharamsala, Kangra, Indora, Kandrori, Nurpur &
Dehra in Kangra District, Mandi & Sundernagar in
Mandi
District, Bilaspur in Bilaspur District,
Hamirpur phase-I, II & III, Nayanagar in Hamirpur
District. Under the various HUDCO housing schemes, the Board has so
far constructed 8817 houses/flats and 1975 plots for all categories of
people. Besides above, Housing Board has constructed 44 Nos. prestigious
commercial office blocks at Kasumpti for housing Directorate offices of
various departments of HP Government. In addition to this 136 Nos.
shops, 7 Nos. commercial spaces, 3 Nos. Godowns, 1 No. Restaurant and
1 Canteen building at Kullu are also its achievements.