Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will virtually inaugurate 88 free houses that were built for Sri Lankan Tamils, who have been living in rehabilitation camps at Minnur village near Ambur town in Tirupattur, at the end of January.
Officials of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), which executed the project, said that Sri Lankan Tamils have been living in dilapidated single-room houses with bare minimum facilities since camps were set up in the early 1990s. “In Tirupattur district, Sri Lankan Tamils were living in camps at Minnur and Chinnapallikuppam near Ambur. The new houses will be given to those living in Chinnapallikuppam by next week (January),” S. Poongodi, Tasildar for Sri Lankan Tamils (Tirupattur), told The Hindu.
The action comes in the wake of 18 new houses that were allocated to Sri Lankan Tamils living in Chinnapallikuppam, which were occupied by unknown persons on January 21. Following the incident, a complaint has been registered with the Ambur Taluk police, which is investigating it. “The new houses were built several weeks ago, but were kept locked. The district administration should handover the new houses to beneficiaries without further delay,” said S. Raja, a resident.
