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Housing for poor: Jamaican model that India can replicate May 31st, 2008 - 2:32 pm ICT by admin - By Aroonim Bhuyan http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/housing-for-poor-jamaican-model-that-india-can-replicate_10054962.html Dubai, May 31 (IANS) An affordable housing scheme being followed in the Caribbean nation of Jamaica may well be worth emulating in India, which is planning its own social housing project. Called the National Housing Trust (NHT), the Jamaican scheme takes contributions from both the employer and employee, much on the lines of India's provident fund policy, for giving affordable housing to all sections of society. "The Jamaican model, which calls for contributions from the employers and employees for providing housing to all sections of the society, certainly sounds interesting for India," P.K. Mohanty, mission director of India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), told IANS here. "After all, we are also plannin