UPA committed to give basic facilities to all: Sonia Gandhi

She noted that it was significant that the UDF government come out with such a courageous measure to provide land for all despite severe pressure on land due to increase in population and urbanisation.



Gandhi said Kerala was poised to become the first state in the country where everyone would have at least a piece of land by 2015 and that would be a remarkable achievement and a new beginning.

Gandhi, who distributed title deeds for three cents of land each to a handful of beneficiaries at the function, said she hoped that these families would be able to construct their houses on the land provided to them.

The scheme in the first phase envisages to provide land for one lakh families in Kollam, Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta districts.