Multi-storey tenements planned for slum, pavement dwellers

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, MARCH 19. The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board will construct two multi-storey buildings in Royapettah for more than 80 slum and pavement dwellers living in the area.

The projects were inaugurated on Monday with the laying of the foundation stone.

In Thomaiappan Street, a four-storey building will be constructed for 52 slum dwellers at Rs. 72,000 a tenement, board officials said. The scheme, complete with basic infrastructure such as drinking water supply, sewage disposal system and street lights, will cost Rs. 45.84 lakhs.

The slum-dwellers, presently living in the scheme site, will be accommodated in temporary huts nearby till the building is constructed.

The second scheme at Meer Bakshi Ali Street will house pavement dwellers living in Royappetah. The four-storey 32-tenement building to be constructed on Chennai Corporation land will cost the board Rs. 34.03 lakhs at Rs. 1,06,350 a tenement.

The TNSCB does not have a regular housing plan for pavement dwellers as the Government cites lack of funds as reason, officials said.

In both schemes, the tenements will be allotted to the beneficiaries under the hire-purchase scheme. The monthly instalment will be Rs. 150 payable over 20 years. Monthly maintenance fee of Rs. 50 will also be collected.

Drinking water will be supplied directly to the tenements through overhead tanks.

The constructions are expected to be completed within a year.

Mr. K. Sundaram, Minister for Milk and in-charge of the Slum Board, Mr. M. K. Stalin, Mayor, Mr. Ajay Bhattacharya, Secretary, Housing and Urban Development, and TNSCB officials participated in today's inauguration.

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