CHENNAI: Deputy Chief Minister O Paneerselvam on Wednesday urged the Slum Clearance Board to ensure that the construction of four lakh dwelling units, under the Beneficiary-led Individual House Construction project, is completed within the next two months.
The project under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) aims to provide beneficiaries Rs 2.1 lakh subsidy – Rs 1.5 lakh from the Centre and Rs 60,000 from the State – in four instalments as per the house construction progress.
The Deputy CM, during a review meeting, directed the officials to hand over completed houses for economically weaker sections at the earliest. He also urged the officials to provide sale-deed to beneficiaries under the World Bank-aided Madras Urban Development Project (MUDP) and the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project (TNUDP), launched in 1979-80 and 1988-89 respectively.
The families in 732 slums across the State, were adopted under the projects to provide them with land tenure security. It has been a nearly four-decade wait for over 42,000 slum families to receive ownership rights of individual houses on government lands. Paneerselvam also discussed the transfer of funds and building of houses for cyclone Gaja victims.
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