The Government is expected to announce the recipients of its housing scheme, 'Binveria'.

The President's Office said that officials from the Housing Scheme Evaluation Committee would meet with members of the media at 16:00 pm this afternoon and they are expected to make the eagerly awaited announcement.

The housing scheme opened for just the residents of the capital Male' garnered huge support as more than 15,000 applied for the 3,000 land plots up for grabs this time around.

The government said that out of the 3,000 land plots, 1,000 have been allocated from Hulhumale while the rest have been allocated from Gulheefalhu.

The government allocated a total of 5,000 land plots for housing under this scheme and is expected to open the rest for application later this year.

Recently, Presidential Spokesperson Mohamed Miuvan said that there won't be any room to question the recipients selected under the government's housing schemes for the residents of Male'.

Miuvaan said that once the government opened the schemes to award land plots and flats for Male' residents, the number of applications showed how much the resident of the capital needed these housing schemes.