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TIRUPUR: The Centre has sanctioned Rs. 20.67 crore to develop 27 out of 87 slums in the dollar town of Tirupur, for providing basic amenities to the areas and upgrading 1,582 shelters and constructing 478 houses. Submitting the list of beneficiaries under the scheme, Municipal Chairman K. Selvaraj said works would soon be executed. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation had sanctioned the proposal submitted by the Tirupur Municipality under the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme. The selected slums include at M.S. Nagar, Chinna Nagar, Kumarappapuram Colony, M.G.R. Nagar, Anaikkadu, Soosaiapuram, Military Colony, Mangalam Road Harijan colony, A.S. Pandit Nagar, Sadiq Batcha Nagar, Jawans Nagar, Bharathidasan Colony and Perichipalayam. The State Level Sanctioning Committee led by the Local Administration Minister forwarded the proposal. Tirupur Municipality had got the highest Central grant, Mr. Selvaraj said. Municipal Commissioner M. Ashokan said of the total project cost of Rs. 20.67 crore, the beneficiaries had to contribute a mere Rs. 1.49 crore. While the Centre would extend a grant of Rs. 16.16 crore, the State would give Rs. 3.02 crore for the project. There will be no financial commitment for the Municipality to execute the scheme. Half of the amount, precisely Rs. 10.63 crore, will be spent to construct and upgrade houses. One thousand five hundred eighty two shelters will be upgraded while 478 houses will be constructed in the 27 slums. While Rs. 4.64 crore will be allotted to create sewerage facility to a length of 18.56 km, storm water drains will be constructed at 12 places at a cost of Rs.3.82 crore. The slums would get roads and pavements, water connection would be given to all households and two community halls would be constructed, Mr. Ashokan said. According to a study in the 27.19-sq km town, set to be upgraded as the State’s seventh Municipal Corporation, 1.26 lakh residents out of 3.52 lakh (36 per cent) live in 87 slums. Municipal sources said 36 slums were notified as unobjectionable while 51 were notified under the objectionable category as they lay on the railway land, private lands, road margins and kulam, kuttai and river poramboke. Mr. Selvaraj hoped that once the development works were executed they would be cease to be slums and declared as normal areas.
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