Ten thousand housing applications to be considered in the first phase for Scheduled Caste and Tribe families

18 October 2026

Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Backward Classes Welfare Minister K.A. Thulasi said the department has taken up house construction for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people, and that 10000 applications will be considered for house construction in the first phase. He was inaugurating online the functioning of the post-metric hostel for girls completed at Mayithara in Cherthala, Alappuzha district. The Minister said all 32 schemes framed by the department as part of the hundred-day action programme are complete and 1000 study rooms have been built. He said the food menu in post-metric hostels has been revised and that prompt steps are being taken to improve hostel functioning. P. Prasad MLA presided and said infrastructure development in post-metric hostels should be speeded up.