The Plantation Directorate will implement the State government’s Plantation Housing Scheme that was sanctioned ₹10 crore in the current financial year to build accommodation for workers in the sector, said Industries Minister P. Rajeeve in Kochi on Tuesday. He said the order on the State government involvement in the housing scheme was expected to be issued in June even as plantation owners were working to improve the residential quarters of labourers.
The Minister spoke at a three-hour discussion with plantation owners in Kochi. Officials from the Plantation Directorate and Industries and Commerce department were among those who participated in the discussions, said a press release.
The government hoped to open a single-window facility as part of efforts to revive the plantation sector, said Mr. Rajeeve.
