Express News Service
CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday laid the foundation for the construction of 1,152 tenements with an area of 413 sq ft at Perumbakkam at a cost of Rs 116.27 crore through video conference in the presence of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.
These tenements would be allotted to the urban poor/slum families living on the banks of waterways and elsewhere in Chennai.
They are being built as part of the LightHouse Project of the Global Housing Technological Challenge-India under the Prime Minister Awas Yojana (Urban). Under this scheme, the Centre has sanctioned construction of 31,62,720 storeyed tenements and 3,42,769 individual houses at a total cost of Rs 27,000 crore across the country.
Targeting previous Central governments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that housing plans had not been prioritised by them and they did not care about the details and quality of construction. At one time, housing plans were not the priority of the Central government. The government did not care about the details and quality of construction. If the changes were not made, it would have been very difficult. Today, the country has chosen a different approach, said PM Modi at the launch of Light House Projects (LHP) across six states. He further said that his government had resolved to change the chalta hai, chalne do approach that was previously taken in housing and other aspects.
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