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426 dwelling units to be replaced with tsunami-resistant houses

INSPECTION: Collector Santosh K. Misra (right) inspecting the work on single-storeyed tenements at Karikattukuppam recently.

KANCHEEPURAM: A total of 426 dwelling units along the coast in Kancheepuram district have been identified as vulnerable to natural calamities and are to be replaced with disaster-resistant houses.

Enquiries reveal that this programme, to be funded by the Union Government and the World Bank, will cover dwelling units located up to 1000 metres from the high-tide line (HTL) or 200 metres on either side of backwaters in order to protect the people from natural calamities. The 426 dwelling units, identified as vulnerable houses, are separate from the new houses being constructed under the Tsunami Rehabilitation Programme (earlier referred as Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation Package).

The following types of houses — a. fully thatched houses; b. thatched roof with any kind of wall like mud, brick etc.; c) dwelling units with mud walls with any kind of roof structure; d) brick walls with mud mortar with any kind of roof structure and e) dwelling units constructed under the Indira Awas Yojana or any other fishermen housing scheme and more than 10 years old, as on January 1, 2006 — have been classified as vulnerable to natural calamities.

To begin with, the State Government has issued necessary orders for re-construction of vulnerable houses, lying within 200 metres from the HTL and from the backwaters and IAY or other government schemes houses, which are lying within 1000 metres from the HTL, constructed under the RGRP with assistance from the Union Government.

Apart from this, a separate proposal has also been mooted to cover vulnerable houses lying between 200 metres and 1000 metres from the HTL under the “Vulnerability Reduction of Coastal Community” project, which is at the final stage of approval by the World Bank, sources said.

Meanwhile, the State Government has accorded its sanction to construct single-storeyed tenements at Karikattukuppam coastal village in Tiruporur panchayat union under the RGRP scheme .

The District Tsunami Project Implementation Unit had informed the Government that sufficient government lands were not available in the relocated areas in coastal panchayats and hence houses had to be constructed having ground and first floors with 325 sq.ft in each floor.

The Collector, Santosh K.Misra, recently inspected the construction work being carried out in Karikattukuppam at an estimated cost of around Rs.3 crore to house 130 fishermen families in 65 tenements.

A total of 4600 houses — 3702 fully and 898 partially — in coastal hamlets in the district were damaged in the killer waves that stuck the Tamil Nadu coast on December 26, 2004. Out of the total damaged houses, 3481 have been completed and handed over to beneficiaries, as on January 31, 2008, sources added.

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