Housing projects estimated to cost Rs. 1,200 cr. unveiled in TN -Thursday April 4,2013

TN CM J Jayalalithaa on Thursday April 4,2013 unveiled housing projects, estimated to cost around Rs. 1,200 crore, for Chennai. 

Making a suo motu statement in the Assembly, the Chief Minister said the 1,500 flats, which would come up on lands belonging to the TNHB, would be built, using pre-fabricated technology that would ensure reduction in cost and construction period

To be carried out under the self-financing scheme of the Housing Board, this project would have flats for persons of all categories of economic status.  

A total of 1,630 individual houses and 2,792 multi-storeyed tenements would be constructed at a cost of Rs. 918.45 crore. Besides, 32 plots would be developed. Work on the construction, which would begin this year, would be completed in 24 months.

To be implemented by Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) and Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB), the projects would include -

• construction of 10-storeyed apartments, numbering 1,500 dwelling units, in Sholinganallur at a cost of Rs. 612 crore

• Rs. 371.05-crore project of 844 multi-storeyed tenements over 13.8 acres of seven sites in and around the Chennai and

•  2,550 such tenements in 6 Chennai Assembly constituencies - 480 houses would come up under Ranganathan scheme and 120 houses under Parthasarathy Nagar scheme of Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency; 392 houses under Sathyavani Muthu Nagar scheme of Perambur; 288 houses under Nehru Park scheme and 32 units under Pillaiyar Koil Street scheme of Egmore; 304 units under Lock Nagar (Navalar Nagar) scheme and 708 houses under Ayodhya Kuppam scheme of Chepauk; 136 houses under Kotturpuram scheme of Saidapet and 42 houses under Andimanya Thottam scheme and 48 units under Pallakkumanyam scheme of Mylapore constituency.

 The first two projects would be executed by the TNHB and the last by the TNSCB.