The Hindu         25.07.2016 

‘Construct houses for slum-dwellers’

K. Rajanna, president of the district unit of Slum Janandholan Karnataka, has demanded that the authorities take steps to construct houses for slum-dwellers by demolishing their huts.

Speaking to presspersons here on Sunday, he said that a majority of slum areas in Chitradurga were located on government land and only three slums were on private land. “Instead of planning to construct G-1 and G-2 houses for slum dwellers, the authorities should take steps to construct independent houses in places where they were staying now. The authorities should also provide facilities to these houses including safe drinking water, electricity and drainage and also grant them property rights.

The Deputy Commissioner should look after the survey of slum areas in the district and the district administration should take steps to provide government land for construction of houses to slum areas that are on private land, he added.

Authorities told to demolish huts and build independent houses there