2 DECADES ON, KANNAPAR THIDAL FAMILIES GET A PLACE TO CALL HOME

Ending the two-decade-long struggle of 114 families residing at the corporation-run shelter in Kannappar Thidal, Minister of Youth Welfare and Sports Development Udhayanidhi Stalin on Monday issued housing allotment orders for them.

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The authorities have planned to resettle the families at the Tamil nadu Urban habitat Development Board tenements at Moolakothalam.

The beneficiary contribution that each family was to pay for their house had initially worked out to ₹4.27 lakh. however, the city corporation later decided to fund two-thirds of this amount, bringing it down to ₹1.42 lakh per family. The residents can pay this amount in installments.

These families were evicted from the streets near nehru Stadium in 2002 and relocated to the Kannappar Thidal shelter. Over the years, as residents increased in the building, many families found themselves cramped into small spaces, unable to even stretch their legs. In 2023, Chief Minister MK