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Move to hand over tenement construction to SCB opposed

Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:43 administrator
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The Hindu  15.12.2010

Move to hand over tenement construction to SCB opposed

Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE: Opposition Councillors in the Coimbatore Corporation on Tuesday staged a walkout against the decision to hand over to Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (SCB) the construction of tenements at Ukkadam.

The reason for their walkout was the first resolution the civic body tabled at the Council meeting.

The resolution, among other things, said the civic body would not be able to effectively oversee the construction of the apartments as it was burdened with other works under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

As soon as the resolution was read aloud, Opposition Councillors were up on their feet arguing how the Corporation could ask the Board to take up the construction of the flats as the latter had proved its incompetence in Ammankulam by building poor quality flats.

“The Board had demonstrated its capabilities by constructing tenements that sank a few months ago at Ammankulam. The same fate will await the Ukkadam tenements,” said P. Rajkumar, AIADMK councillor from Ward 71.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:44
 

Ammankulam tenements still pose risk

Monday, 06 December 2010 06:36 administrator
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The Deccan Chronicle  06.12.2010

Ammankulam tenements still pose risk

Coimbatore, Dec. 5: It has been more than eight months since the two housing tenements in Ammankulam sank in torrential rain, but the civic body is yet to come up with the results for soil tests at the site. In April, two blocks of housing tenements sank and tilted dangerously.

Though the two buildings were demolished soon on the advice of experts, the civic body is yet to come out with the soil-test results to allay apprehensions over the safety of the other buildings.

The apartments were constructed by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) at Ammankulam to relocate slum-dwellers from near water bodies. The buildings that sank are among 936 dwelling units constructed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

Last Updated on Monday, 06 December 2010 06:37
 

Housing scheme in town panchayats too

Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:53 administrator
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The New Indian Express  24.11.2010

Housing scheme in town panchayats too

CHENNAI: The Kalaignar Housing Scheme (KHS), now being implemented in village panchayats, would be extended to town panchayats also, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi announced at a review meeting held at the Secretariat on Tuesday.  

The hutments in all town panchayats would be surveyed and identity cards would be issued to deserving families. Poor people in hilly areas of Udhagamandalam and Kodaikkanal were living in hutments with roofs made of plastic and tinsheets.  As a special case, these hutments would also be brought under the KHS and identity cards would be issued.

The Chief Minister congratulated the officials concerned for completing 4,063 houses for the hut dwellers in various parts of the State so far. Under the KHS, 21 lakh houses would be constructed within a span of six years and in the first phase, three lakh houses would be constructed by January 2011.

Works were in progress in 13 districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Sivaganga, Coimbatore, the Nilgris, Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar, Dindigul, Theni, Madurai, Karur and Tirupur, to complete the three lakh concrete houses.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:55
 
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