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Tsunami: 11,000 houses to be built

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said here on Monday that the houses to be built to rehabilitate the people in the coastal areas under the Centrally aided tsunami rehabilitation project would be completed before March 31, 2009.

Inaugurating the State-level launch of the housing project, the Chief Minister said 11,000 houses would be built in nine districts at a cost of Rs. 325 crore to rehabilitate the people from the coastal belt to areas that were unlikely to be affected by tsunami and other sea-related calamities.

Revenue Minister K.P. Rajendran, who presided, said the Government would take steps to ensure that fish-workers were rehabilitated in areas not far away from the sea.

He said the District Collectors had been directed to invoke the ‘urgency clause’ to acquire land for the housing project if consensus did not work.

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