Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday gave the administrative
sanction for constructing 1,472 multi-storey tenements at a cost of
`117.15 crore through the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) for
resettling the hutment dwellers living in Ward No 96 of Chennai
Corporation (Kakkanji Nagar).
Of the 1,472 tenements, 1,056 will
come up under the Ambattur Athipattu-I project at a cost of Rs 84.92
crore, while 416 tenements will be constructed under the Ambattur
Athipattu-II project at a cost of `32.23 crore.
The CM also
sanctioned `31.5 crore and `11.63 crore respectively for Athipattu-I and
Athipattu-II projects as the State government’s grant. Each of the
tenements will be built on an area of 271 sq ft with two rooms, a
kitchen, balcony and a toilet.
The Chief Minister had already
directed the authorities to take up repair works in the TNSCB tenements
constructed many years ago to ensure safe dwelling of the poor. For the
current year (2013-14) and the next financial year, the Chief Minister
has allocated`25.77 crore for undertaking repair works. With these
funds, repair works will be carried out in 29,028 tenements.
As
many as 15,656 multi-storey tenements have been constructed in Okkiyam
Thoraipakkam as part of the Kannagi Nagar Project, for resettlement of
hutment dwellers residing in objectionable areas in Chennai city.
Further, 8,048 tenements are being constructed in the same place.
Since
the density of population has gone up in this area due to resettlement
of people, transport facilities should be upgraded for these people.
The Chief Minister has sanctioned `2 crore towards upgrading the Kannagi
Nagar bus terminus with more bus bays to park 20 buses and other
amenities.
