The non-governmental organisations Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC) and the International Accountability Project (IAP) have demanded effective intervention from the World Bank (WB) and the Tamil Nadu (T.N.) government in addressing long-pending issues in some of the WB-funded housing projects for the urban poor implemented in the State.
A report jointly released by these organisations here on Friday highlighted the issues faced by the families covered under these projects, in which the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board was the implementing agency in the State. Majority of the issues dealt with the Madras Urban Development Project (MUDP) implemented in two phases and the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project (TNUDP).
The report highlighted that despite delays of more than 2.5 decades since the completion of these projects, majority of the families covered under the projects were yet to receive freehold titles for the land plots they were allocated and many of them still faced threats of evictions. It pointed out that a group of families settled under the MUDP near the Cooum river in Chennai were recently evicted even though the site was earlier allocated to them by the government.
