Announcing several projects of the Tamil Nadu Housing Board in the
state, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said most of them would be
constructed using pre-fab technology.

Stating that the pre-fab
technology is already in use in the cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore
and Hyderabad, Jayalalithaa said this technology reduced the duration
of the construction up to 25 per cent and the cost by 10 to 15 per cent.

Parts
of the building are manufactured in factories and used in the
construction after ‘curing’ through water. Among the projects announced,
the number of houses that are to be built in each of the nine districts
and the cost involved is as follows: Chennai and its surrounding areas
(seven places – 13.80 acres – 844 multi-storey apartments – Rs 371.05
crore), Kancheepuram (two places – 22.70 acres – 1,500 multi-storey
apartments- 32 plots would be developed – Rs 303.80 crore), Coimbatore
district (two places – 3.90 acre – 344 multi-storey apartments – Rs
50.16 crore), Erode district (two places – 12.15 acres – 468
multi-storey apartments – Rs 59.27 crore, Salem district (36.20 acres –
120 houses – Rs 13.27 crore), Krishnagiri district (10.50 acres – 258
multi-storey apartments – Rs 19.20 crore), Virudhunagar district (three
places – 32.50 acres – 722 houses – Rs 73.10 crore), Dindigul district
(two places – 1.03 acres – 35 houses – `2.68 crore), Tiruchi district
(two places – 3.09 acres – 104 multi-storey apartments, 27 houses – Rs
25.92 crore)

The Chief Minister also said of the 1.29 lakh
apartments and houses built by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board, most
of them were in a dilapidated condition.

The people in these
buildings were living in fear. As such, the government has decided to
demolish the old buildings and construct new ones.

In the first
phase, 3,500 multi-storey apartments in Chennai and other districts that
are in a state of ruin would be rebuilt in the current financial year
at a cost of Rs 280 crore. The place and the number of apartments to be
built are: Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar (480 houses under Ranganathapuram
scheme, 120 houses under Parthasarathy Nagar scheme), Perambur
constituency (392 houses under Sathyavanimuthu Nagar scheme, Egmore
constituency (288 houses under Nehru Park scheme and 32 units under
Pillaiyar Koil Street scheme), Chepauk constituency (304 units under
Lock Nagar (Navalar Nagar) scheme and 708 houses under Ayodhya Kuppam
scheme), Saidapet constituency (136 houses under Kotturpuram scheme) and
Mylaopre constituency (42 houses under Andimanya Thottam scheme and 48
units under Pallakkumanyam scheme).

Coimbatore district (246
apartments under Aduthotti scheme), Tiruchi district (587 houses under
Tiruchi-Beechankulam scheme and Nagapattinam district (117 apartments).