The Hindu               06.06.2013

Mayor’s Tamil Nadu formula for RAY

Special Correspondent

Mayor Mohd. Majid Hussain has mooted collecting only 10 per cent of the cost from beneficiaries, and the rest will be borne by Central and State Governments for slum redevelopment projects under the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) as is done in Tamil Nadu.

At a meeting with officials of the Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) and the GHMC, he was told by RAY’s regional coordinator that the slums redevelopment programme was progressing rapidly in Tamil Nadu once the government there took up 40 per cent contribution.

The Mayor asked officials to prepare detailed project reports. Women self-help groups should be involved while preparing the reports, he said and wanted works in slums at Attapur, Shivarampally, Addagutta and Ismail Nagar to be taken up soon. The survey of slums of Narsimha basthi, Ambedkar Nagar, IDH Colony and New Indira Nagar at Kapra has already commenced, Engineer-in-chief R. Dhan Singh said.