Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday inaugurated 10,867
multi-storey tenements across the State, constructed at a cost of
`441.50 crore.
She also inaugurated drinking water projects in six districts established at a cost of `21 crore.
The
10,867 tenements include the 6,000 new multi-storey tenements at Ezhil
Nagar Okkiyam Thoraippakkam built at a cost of `228.60 crore, another
2,048 tenements in Okkiyam Thoraippakkam built at a cost of `106.11
crore and the 628 tenements constructed in Nochi Nagar at a cost of
`45.39 crore. The tenements located in other parts of the State are:
Ammankulam (Coimbatore dt – 792 tenements), Machuvadi (Pudukottai
municipality – 96 tenements), Santhaipettai (Pudukottai – 84 tenements),
VOC Nagar (Tirunelveli – 207 tenements), Doraisingh Nagar (Tuticorin –
78 tenements), MGR Nagar (Namakkal – 342 tenements), Ezhil Nagar Part-II
(Hosur – 192 tenements), Erumapalayam (Salem – 400 tenements) Each
tenement is built in an area ranging from 270 sq.ft to 357 sq.ft and
construction cost ranges from `2 64 lakh to `7.23 lakh. The
multi-storey tenements have all basic amenities apart from library,
small shops, ration shops, borewell and parks.
The CM also
inaugurated drinking water projects in six districts – Erode
(Aappakudal), Tiruchy (Uppiliapuram) Tiruvannamalai (Anakkavur panchayat
union), Kanchipuram (Kattankulathur Panchayat Union), Vellore (Valajah
Panchayat Union) and Kanyakumari (Melpuram Panchayat Union) – set up at a
cost of `21.47 crore.
