The 768 families in Valankulam identified for moving out to Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) tenements in Ammankulam will shift houses in the coming days.
According to sources, the Board would in the next couple of days issue house ownership documents containing their photographs to the beneficiaries to facilitate their movement.
But before entering the new tenements, they would have to produce certificates that stated that they had demolished their houses on Valankulam bund.
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They explained that the beneficiaries need not raze down houses but only remove a portion to make them unsuitable for occupation, obtain a certificate for the same from TNSCB engineers at the site and produce the same before occupation to the engineers at Ammankulam.
This was to prevent people from occupying the vacated houses. If this was not done, the very purpose of providing houses to slum dwellers to clear the area they had illegally occupied would stand defeated.
The TNSCB had constructed 790 tenements in Ammankulam and allotted them at a draw of lots that was held a month ago.
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Of those, around 710 families had paid the beneficiary contribution of Rs. 17,800, which worked out to 10 per cent of the construction cost. The Central Government had funded 50 per cent of the house cost and the State Government the remaining 40 per cent.
The TNSCB had built the tenements for the Coimbatore Corporation under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission scheme.
For the 300 more families in Valankulam that had been identified beneficiaries, the TNSCB would allot houses in the upcoming Ukkadam housing scheme. The sources said that the Ukkadam tenements would be ready for occupation by March this year.
Once the 790 families moved out of Valankulam, the TNSCB with help from the Coimabtore Corporation raze down the houses and hand over the encroached land for development as park or public utility site.