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Ministers hand over houses to slum dwellers

Staff Reporter

Constructed with 50 per cent Government subsidy

COIMBATORE: As many as 916 houses built by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board for the slum dwellers at Rs. 6.87 crores were handed over to the beneficiaries on Thursday.

Eviction drive

The Board had constructed houses for slum dwellers, evicted during various anti-encroachment drives, at Sugunapuram Phase I, Sugunapuram East, Kurichi and Pillayarkulam areas. The Ministers, S.M. Velusamy (Backward Classes), Anitha Radhakrishnan (Housing) and P.V. Damodaran (Animal Husbandry), and the Chairman of the Slum Clearance Board, N. Balaganga, handed over the houses to the beneficiaries at a function organised at Pillayarkulam.

The Collector, S. Kosalaraman, the Mayor, T. Malaravan and the Perur MLA, Rohini alias Krishnakumar, took part.

Responding to the plea of the beneficiaries for provision of streetlights, drinking water supply and a crematorium, the Ministers said that the facilities would be provided soon.

The houses had been built with 50 per cent subsidy from the Government and the beneficiaries would have to remit Rs. 250 per month for 15 years to meet the remaining cost.

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