Delhi Government has decided to distribute nearly 15,000low-cost houses to slum dwellers for which the allotment of the flats will begin within next two months. This was decided at a meeting of Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB)chaired by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. In the meeting it was decided that those who have settled in a slum or jhughi jhopri cluster not later than 31st of March 2007 will be eligible to get allotment of the low cost houses. Earlier, the cut off date was 31st of March, 2002. It raised eligibility criteria of annual family income from 60,000 to one lakh rupees to get allotment of the flats built under the JNNURM scheme. Ms Dikshit said that in order to make Delhi slum-free, it is imperative to initiate process of allotment of already built houses as the aspirants have been impatiently waiting to have their own houses in the city.