Revanth celebrates Deepavali with house beneficiary Indiramma

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and his cabinet colleagues celebrate Deepavali with beneficiaries of Indiramma House in Kodangal constituency on November 8, 2026. Photo Credit: Special Arrangements.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy along with ministers and MLAs celebrated Deepavali on Sunday (November 8, 2026) with a beneficiary of the Indiramma housing scheme at Parsapur village in Kodangal mandal in an initiative to highlight the government’s flagship housing scheme for poor families.

The Chief Minister inaugurated the newly constructed home of Goripalli Sumitra and Srinivas, presented the family with new clothes and had a traditional Deepavali meal of fine rice at their residence. Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar and ministers Seethakka, Jupally Krishna Rao, Damodar Rajanarasimha and other public representatives joined the family for lunch.

The program titled “Maa Indiramma Intlo Deepavali” (Deepavali in our home Indiramma) was designed by Mr. Revanth Reddy to take the government’s initiative of housing for the people and celebrate the festival with the families who have been allotted houses.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and his cabinet colleagues have lunch at the residence of the recipient of Indiramma House in Kodangal constituency on November 8, 2026. Photo credit: Special arrangement.

He asked the ministers, MLAs and other elected representatives to spend Deepavali with the beneficiaries of the scheme in their respective constituencies. The idea was to make the festival a celebration with poor families who got permanent homes thanks to government assistance, rather than limiting the program to official celebrations.

Later, the chief minister also inaugurated a science museum at Kosgi, a primary health center at Balampet, police stations at Dudyala and Kodangal, a high school and a junior college at Hakimpet and a new government high school building at Doulatabad, all in the Kodangal constituency he represented.

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The Indiramma housing scheme is the flagship of the Revanth Reddy government. The latest data announced by Housing Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy recently revealed that around 2.21 lakh Indiramma houses have been completed across the state. The government has sanctioned 4.5 million houses in the first phase and another 2.5 million in the second phase. It has also adopted plans to build one million houses in Hyderabad urban area.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and his cabinet colleagues present new clothes to the beneficiary family of Indiramma House in Kodangal constituency on November 8, 2026 as part of Deepavali celebrations. Photo credit: Special arrangement

Beneficiaries are picked up in the open without any intervention of the political leader and the programs are held in the open in the presence of all those who applied for the program.

The state has earmarked around ₹40,000 crore for the two phases and the proposed urban housing programme. Separately, official housing department data available in October showed that ₹7,634 crore was released for construction assistance to beneficiaries.

The Indiramma Indlu scheme was one of the key promises of the Congress ahead of the 2023 general elections, where the party promised to provide a house to every eligible homeless family and extend a financial assistance of ₹5,000 for building a house.

The houses have two rooms, a kitchen and a toilet. In the first phase, the government approved 4.5 million houses, with 3,500 houses earmarked for each assembly constituency.

Published – 8 Nov 2026 21:54 IST