According to Mr.
P.Joseph Rajaratnam, Chief Engineer, Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB), Tamil
Nadu (TN) needs a land acquisition policy to create a land bank for
affordable housing, He was speaking at a seminar on affordable
housing for all
organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at Chennai.
TNHB, the public
sector housing agency, has not acquired land in the past 2 decades & has
been dependent on land bank built up in the previous years. The new policy
should look at creating large land parcels, special residential zones, along
the lines of special industrial areas, to ensure supply of affordable housing.
Mr. P.Joseph Rajaratnam said, ''TNHB had created
housing for the EESs (economically weaker sections) and the low & middle
income groups up to the 1990s. About 2.9 lakh houses have been allocated to
these segments out of the total 4 lakh houses constructed since the TNHB was
set up in 1961.
Under the acquisition
policy, land owners should be made partners to benefit from the value addition
once development happens. As of now, there are about 3,000 litigations pending
in various courts relating to land acquisition.
For instance, the
complications in land acquisition have also delayed the satellite township
proposed near Thirumazhisai to the west of Chennai city. Of the more than 1,200
acre land to be acquired, just nearly 300 acres are available “on paper”
Confederation of
Indian Industry - Chennai office
Mr. Sujith Haridas,
Senior Director
98 / 1, Velacherry
Main Road
Guindy. Chennai - 600
032
Phone : +91-44-4244
4555
Fax :+91-44-4244 4510
Email :
sujith.haridas@cii.in
Src: Hindu
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