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CASE STUDY
THE PROJECT- SHUKHOBRISHTI
The Shukhobrishti project is one
of the largest mass housing
development projects in India. It
was initiated by the West Bengal
Housing Infrastructure
Development Company
(WBHIDCO), a State
Government owned Company
that was set up for the state
infrastructure development with
a focus on the development of
New Town, Kolkata. The Bengal
Shapoorji Housing Development
Pvt Ltd (BSHDPL), a group
Company of the Shapoorji
Pallonji and Company Pvt Ltd
(SPCL), has been developing the
project by constructing low-cost
housing units in New Town
Kolkata for 20,000 families. This
development is primarily aimed
at catering to the housing needs
of Low Income and Middle
Income Groups (LIG and MIG)
of households. At the The WBHIDCO is the public activity.
completion of this project, it is body which plans and executes
expected to house around
100,000 people in the township.
Until now 3 phases have been
completed and 7,000 families
have been accommodated. Three
more phases are being
undertaken. The housing units
were to be priced between Rs. 3
lakh –Rs.10.12 lakh, so that they
are within the reach of LIG and
MIG households.
Shukhobrishti is a housing
project spread over 60 acres of
the New Town (Rajarhat),
Kolkata, which is being
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developed as a satellite city in and amenities within New
about 6,000 hectare area. The Town.A lot of Information
New Town Rajarhat is a satellite Technology (IT) companies and
township developed in the financial institutions are coming
eastern outskirts of Kolkata to
up in the area, which increased
establish a new business centre
the migration from central
to reduce the mounting pressure
city/CBD to this new satellite
on the existing Central Business
township in the suburbs.
District (CBD) and increasing
housing stock supply by creating Development Model
new residential units houses for
The Shukhobrishti project is
a population of 7.50 lakh from
conceptualised to be developed
all income groups with emphasis
on a Public – Private Partnership
on housing for lower income
(PPP) model with the
groups. The State Government
WBHIDCO and the SPCL
had entrusted the work of land
representing the public and
acquisition for the project to the private sectors respectively.
West Bengal Housing Board in BSHDPL is the Special Purpose
April 1996, for this purpose they Vehicle (SPV) created for the
had constituted a new body execution of the project. The
called the West Bengal Housing project is based on the model of
Infrastructure Development cross subsidizing the
development of MIG and LIG
Corporation (WBHIDCO). The
housing units with the
development of new town is still
utilisation of some land outside
going on in a phased manner.
the project area for commercial
The WBHIDCO
identified the private partner i.e.
development projects and SPCL, through a bidding process
provision of infrastructure like and gave the preferred bidder
roads, drains, sewerage line, for the project about 50 acres of
land in the New Town area at a
water supply lines, major below market price to develop
beautification works and other office-space for the IT/ITES
related major works in the entire industry (Chakrabarty and
Sarkar 2009). It had laid down
6,000–7,000 hectare area in
condition on the contractor that
Rajarhat. The New Town
one would not wait to generate
(Kolkata) Development profits from space for IT/ITES
Authority (NTDA) has been industry before starting the
constituted under the New construction of housing units for
Town Kolkata Development LIG/MIG households. Under
Shukhobrishti project, both the
Authority Act, 2007 for
developments have to run
rendering various civic services
concurrently.