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Plan for slum free Chennai by 2011
Chennai, Dec 16 (PTI) Taking the initiative to make Chennai--capital of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu-- a slum-free city by 2011, the provincial government has started constructing several residential complexes across the metropolis to rehabilitate slum-dwellers.
"Efforts are being taken by the Chennai Corporation in
association with Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB), to
ensure that Chennai will be slum-free within the next two
years," Chennai Corporation Mayor M Subramaniam told PTI.
He said the entire exercise would be carried out with the
people's cooperation. "The plan will involve two aspects -
resettling of people living along the city's waterways and
those living along the coast," he added.
TNSCB officials said seven-storeyed complexes would also
be constructed to rehabilitate slum-dwellers. The process of
identifying slums had already begun and the tenements would be
built under both the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission and Chennai City River Conservation Project,they said.
Land acquisition for the new complexes had not posed a
problem as there was enough government land available,
officials said.
TNSCB officials also said that the new tenements had
already come up up at Thiruvottiyur and Tondiarpet in North
Chennai and Okkiyam and Thoraipakkam in South Chennai.
The TNSCB also proposes to construct 18,000 tenements -
9,000 in South Chennai and 9,000 in North Chennai - to
resettle slum dwellers. The houses will be 270 square feet
size, would have all infrastructure facilities, including
piped water supply, they said.
They said the tenements would either be provided free or
at 'resonable cost'. Wherever possible, the government would
ensure that the TNSCB reconstructs tenements or builds new
ones. Steps would also be taken to ensure that slum dwellers
were neither marginalised or segregated under the new plan,
they said.
As per government estimates, about 28 per cent of the
city's population currently lives in slums.
In the current fiscal, the TNSCB will develop houses on
1,356 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs 198 crore for
more than 4,000 families. PTI SNR
"Efforts are being taken by the Chennai Corporation in
association with Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB), to
ensure that Chennai will be slum-free within the next two
years," Chennai Corporation Mayor M Subramaniam told PTI.
He said the entire exercise would be carried out with the
people's cooperation. "The plan will involve two aspects -
resettling of people living along the city's waterways and
those living along the coast," he added.
TNSCB officials said seven-storeyed complexes would also
be constructed to rehabilitate slum-dwellers. The process of
identifying slums had already begun and the tenements would be
built under both the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission and Chennai City River Conservation Project,they said.
Land acquisition for the new complexes had not posed a
problem as there was enough government land available,
officials said.
TNSCB officials also said that the new tenements had
already come up up at Thiruvottiyur and Tondiarpet in North
Chennai and Okkiyam and Thoraipakkam in South Chennai.
The TNSCB also proposes to construct 18,000 tenements -
9,000 in South Chennai and 9,000 in North Chennai - to
resettle slum dwellers. The houses will be 270 square feet
size, would have all infrastructure facilities, including
piped water supply, they said.
They said the tenements would either be provided free or
at 'resonable cost'. Wherever possible, the government would
ensure that the TNSCB reconstructs tenements or builds new
ones. Steps would also be taken to ensure that slum dwellers
were neither marginalised or segregated under the new plan,
they said.
As per government estimates, about 28 per cent of the
city's population currently lives in slums.
In the current fiscal, the TNSCB will develop houses on
1,356 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs 198 crore for
more than 4,000 families. PTI SNR
