How Puducherry offers housing sites to homeless and underprivileged communities

Homelessness continues to affect many economically weaker families across Puducherry, particularly those from scheduled caste and other backward class communities who lack the means to own even a piece of land to build a home on. To address this, the Union Territory administration has, over the decades, run welfare schemes aimed at helping such families secure a site of their own. One such scheme is the Distribution of Free House Sites to Scheduled Caste/Other Economically Backward Classes, launched in 1981 by the Adi Dravidar Welfare Department, government of Puducherry.Under the scheme, homeless poor scheduled caste people and other economically backward class people who meet the eligibility criteria are provided free housing sites to enable them to construct their own houses.Eligibility and documents requiredThe applicant must be a citizen of India and a native or permanent resident of the Union Territory of Pondicherry.