Amrita Kuteeram - A Free Housing Project for the Poor

Since 1987, Amma has been constructing houses every year for the benefit of the poor in the vicinity of Amritapuri ashram. In 1996 She inaugurated the massive Amrita Kuteeram project.

On May 17, 1998 the Prime Minister, Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee, handed over a symbolic key for the first 5,000 houses. Since 1998, more than 25,000 homes have been distributed. Now Amma has taken on a new goal to build 100,000 homes for the homeless over the next ten years.

In addition to building individual houses for qualified applicants, Amrita Kuteeram has taken on several large-scale building efforts.

These include a major reconstruction effort in Gujarat following the devastating earthquake in 2001, and housing colonies in Panagudi, Madras, Mysore, Hyderabad, Ghaziabad, Durgapur and Rameswaram.

New housing projects are planned in Delhi and Lucknow. Varanasi, Durgapur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune, Madhya Pradesh, ...

 

 
   
 
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