Master plan to provide fire-proof housing facilities

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, JULY 8. The Chief Minister, Mr. P. Shanmugham, announced that a master plan was being finalised in consultation with the HUDCO and some expertise from foreign countries to provide fire-proof housing facilities to the poor.

Addressing a meeting of officials in Karaikal after visiting fire-ravaged pockets there on Saturday, Mr. Shanmugham said the official machinery should lose no time in providing relief and rehabilitation to the scores of families rendered homeless in the series of fire mishaps in Karaikal and some of the neighbouring areas, recently.

A communication from the Department of Information said here on Saturday that Mr. Shanmugham visited the site at Puliankottai Salai in Karaikal, where a site belonging to the administration was being used to provide alternative sites to the people rendered homeless in the recent fire near the Karaikal Ammayar temple there.

He visited the industrial growth centre coming up at an extent of 650 acres in Polagam near Karaikal. Mr. Shanmugham said that experts from countries like France and Malaysia would be participating in a three-day seminar being organised by the administration to enlist their views and technical ideas to construct a fire-proof houses. These countries expressed their willingness to contribute funds as the Centre had already permitted the administration to work out the arrangements.

The French Government also come forward to establish hospitals in Pondicherry, the communication said.

He also referred to the strict austerity measures observed by his Government to conserve finance and to invest in welfare activities.

Generation of jobs in Karaikal would pick up fast with the special steps taken to develop a growth centre and also to promote infrastructural activities in the region, he said and

instructed the officials to ensure that no segment of people was left high and dry in getting the amenities.

Mr. Shanmugham handed Rs. 50,000 to each of the six families who had lost their nearest kin in the last month fire accident in Karaikal.

The Karaikal wing of the ONGC handed over Rs. 2 lakhs to the Relief Fund, the communication added.

The Chief Minister was accompanied by the Deputy Speaker, Mr. M. Chandrakasu, the Tourism Minister, Mr. A.V. Subramanian, the District Collector, Mr. A. Anbarasu, the Regional Executive Officer, Mr. B.R. Babu, the Deputy Collector (Revenue), Mr. Sathyanarayana, among others.

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