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Residents fight for basic amenities in Chennai
Chennai,
Nov
18:
Demanding
basic
amenities,
residents
of
Kannagi
Nagar
in
Okkiyam
-
Thoraipakkam
last
week
sent
thousands
of
postcards
to
the
State
government
demanding
improvement
of
basic
amenities
in
the
locality.
They
had
been
relocated
from
slums
to
Tamil
Nadu
Slum
Clearance
Board
(TNSCB)
tenements
but
lacked
safe
drinking
water,
adequate
public
transport
and
child
care
facilities.
The
protest
is
a
sign
of
the
angst
of
those
who
have
been
resettled
in
houses
provided
by
the
TNSCB
but
without
infrastructure
required
to
support
a
sizeable
population.
The
local
body
has
not
provided
adequate
civic
services
such
as
garbage
clearance
and
drinking
water
supply.
In its policy note for 2008 - 09, the TNSCB said that it would undertake a massive construction programme to make Chennai 'slum-free by 2013'. The project is to be taken up as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission under the 'basic services for urban poor' component. Semmenchery, Perumbakkam and Okkiyam - Thoraipakkam in the south and Tiruvottiyur in the north are some of the locations where new tenements are to be built.
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