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
