The Hindu 04.11.2009
Encroachments removed
Staff Reporter
| Buildings on Corpn. land demolished |
— Photo: P. Goutham 
Action taken: The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board workers removing encroachments at Velliyankadu in Erumapalayam in Salem on Tuesday.
SALEM: A team of officials from the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board removed encroachments at Velliyankadu in Erumapalayam here on Tuesday.
Officials demolished over 30 houses constructed by occupying the land belonging to the Salem Corporation. The civic body handed over the land to the slum clearance board for the construction of apartment buildings to provide housing facilities to sanitary workers and to those who lived in the slum areas located near the Kitchipalayam dump yard.
Notices
The board had already served notices on over 80 families that occupied the Corporation land and constructed houses. The Corporation had promised these families to allot flats after constructing the buildings.
While members of 40 families vacated their houses based on the assurance from the Corporation, a few families refused to do so.
On Tuesday, the board along with the city police personnel removed the encroachments on the land.
The board officials said that the State Government allotted Rs. 10.56 crore for the construction of over 400 flats in the first phase.
The construction would be completed in nine months. In the second phase, over 440 flats would be constructed, the officials added.