It was nice to read the two articles by Shubhomoy Bhattacharjee, “Why cheaper housing is the elephant in the room” (February 27) and “Building on the middle class dream” (March 1), as part of the series on affordable reading, the dream project of the Narendra Modi government. The fact that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is making every effort to make the project successful is well known.
Most writing on affordable housing usually does not focus on issues such as land pricing, infrastructure development and connectivity issues. The two articles cite the issues, highlight the need to