A group of residents of Dr. Santosh Nagar at Egmore petitioned the Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board (TNUHDB) on Wednesday, requesting waiver of the “beneficiary contribution” demanded from them for the allocation of new houses, and swift allocation of the houses.
According to the petitioners, around 250 families living in the TNUHDB tenements at Dr. Santosh Nagar, along with another roughly couple of hundred families living around the tenements, were evicted in January 2020 as the Board decided to demolish and reconstruct the tenements as high-rise buildings because the old buildings had become dilapidated.
