VISAKHAPATNAM: The Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) is burning the midnight oil to reach its deadline of making ready the one-cent layouts by this month-end.
The VMRDA is developing 56 layouts on about 4,000 acres in different parts of Visakhapatnam district for distribution of house sites to about 1.8 lakh homeless poor. The VMRDA has deployed special teams to various mandals, where the housing sites are located, to monitor the works.