C Shivakumar
Chennai:
Tamil Nadu government has urged the Centre to include 191 towns from the state under the Housing for All Mission as against 134 stipulated by the Centre.
It is learnt that Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board has sent in the proposal for 191 towns to be included under the first phase for Housing for All Mission to the Union Housing and Urban Development secretary earlier this month.
There were 666 statutory towns that were identified under the programme. Under the first phase, the Centre has asked the state to submit the list of 134 statutory towns.
However, following the request from director of Town Panchayats, a total of 157 towns have been identified, said a TNSCB source.
The proposal has been sent after Union Minister of Urban Development Housing and Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA) and Parliamentary Affairs M Venkaiah Naidu wrote a letter to the state government to direct various departments in the state to sign memorandum of agreement (MoA) and also to complete other formalities like identification of cities completion of demand survey of houses and approval of the state level monitoring committee, which is to be headed by the chief secretary.
Sources said that a total of 11 World Class cities and district headquarters and corporations have been included in the first phase. These include Chennai, Coimbatore, Erode, Madurai, Salem, Tirunelveli, Thoothkudi, Tiruchirappalli, Tiruppur, Vellore and Cuddalore.
This list submitted to the Centre also includes 21 district head quarters and municipal towns besides two municipal towns and 157 town panchayats.
Of the districts, Coimbatore has 12 town town panchayats, the highest which figure in the list of 191 towns.
The newly launched Housing for All (Urban) has mandated that the state should sign Memorandum of Agreement with the ministry and are required to propose the list of selected cities so as to avail funds under the mission.
Tamil Nadu requires 12.94 lakh houses in the 666 cities and towns of the state for urban poor. The figures also include non-slum urban poor. Under housing for all Mission, the Union government would support the costruction of houses up to 30 square meter carpet area with basic civic infrastructure.
Box:
Statutory Towns in TN proposed for inclusion under Phase I of Housing for all
Corporations/ District HQs/ World Class Cities --- 11
District HQs/Municipal Towns - --------- 21
World Class Cities/ Municipal Towns ---- 2
Town Panchayats ------- 157
Total 191
Overall List
Corporations ---- ----- 12
Municipal Towns ---- 124
Town Panchayats ---- 528
Cantonment Board --- 2
Total 666
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