The Tamil Nadu government has accorded its administrative sanction for ₹3,100 crore for construction of 1 lakh new houses under the ‘Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam’ scheme. It seeks to provide a financial assistance of ₹3.10 lakh for each house constructed under the programme.
Though the Finance Minister had announced that the selected beneficiaries would be “provided with house sites, in case they are landless, and with funds, to be credited into their bank accounts, for constructing the houses”, the guidelines say: “Only households with patta or ownership document for their house sites will be eligible.”
Huts constructed on poramboke lands shall not be replaced with permanent houses under the scheme “Kalaignarin Kanavu IIlam” unless the porambokes are of unobjectionable nature and the encroachments are regularised by Revenue Department, another criterion said.
