CM’s ‘Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar’ project enters ‘UN Scroll of Honour’

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s flagship project, ‘Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar’, has been selected for another prestigious international award and is among the five most successful housing programmes in the world.

The ‘Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar’ programme has been selected for the United Nations Scroll of Honour Award, with UN-Habitat announcing the conferment of the award in recognition of the programme’s efforts to provide safe and adequate housing opportunities to low-income families.

The programme was selected following a competitive and comprehensive review of housing projects being implemented across the world. The award will be presented to ‘Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar’ at the global World Habitat Day event on October 5.

The UN Scroll of Honour Award ceremony will be held next month in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, while special seminars and workshops on housing and urban development will be held in Muscat from October 6 to 8.

Only five programmes from around the world are selected for the UN Scroll of Honour Award each year.

Under the ‘Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar’ programme, loans worth Rs260 billion have been disbursed for the construction of more than 200,000 houses. The programme also has the distinction of being Pakistan’s largest and first fully digital housing finance scheme.

In the first phase, loans exceeding Rs196 billion were disbursed for 134,439 houses, while in the second phase, loans of more than Rs62 billion were provided for 65,000 houses.

Around 125,000 families have already moved into houses constructed under the ‘Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar’ programme.

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