The Tamil Nadu Government has passed orders for the construction of 6,254 houses at a cost of Rs 1,740 crore under rental housing and self-financing schemes.

According to an official press release, these houses will come up in 17 locations in Chennai replacing existing, old houses.

The houses will include 2,522 rental houses for Government employees and 1,770 units under the self- finance scheme for the general public in the first phase and 1,124 rental housing and 838 self financed housing in the second phase.

These will replace over 2,238 old houses which will be brought down. The locations include Peter’s Colony, Lloyd’s Colony, Todhunter Nagar Stage I and II.

The State Government has also announced plans for organised development of urban areas.

The area under the Director of Town and Country Planning is estimated at 1.28 sq km but the plan area is just about 6,950 sq km – about 5 per cent. The balance is non-plan area of about 1.21 sq km. This includes about 58,243 sq km of agriculture land, 21,431 sq km of forest land and balance available is 42,245 sq km.

A comprehensive plan will be created for the development of the non-plan area through experts and academic institutions, the release said.

In the first phase, an organised development plan will be created for 8,447 sq km of land including Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi, Tuticorin, Tirupur, Erode and Hosur. The plan will be formulated by the Bharathidasan University under the Town and Country Planning Act. This will be implemented at a cost of Rs 4.91 crore.

The State Government has also announced plans to introduce online clearance of building plan approvals in Coimbatore, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Salem, Tiruchi, Erode, Tuticorin, Vellore, Tirupur, Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram.

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