75 rag-pickers shifted to shelter for homeless

Chennai | Tuesday | 18th July, 2017

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Initially, the government would be providing a sum of ? 9 lakh every year for five years for maintenance of the shelter. The shelter constructed at a cost of ?50 lakh under the SUH scheme, would be maintained by the Dindigul-based non-governmental organisation. more-inKancheepuram Municipality has announced some families earning their livelihood by picking the wastes in the civic body’s compost yard as the beneficiaries of the Shelter for Urban Homeless (SUH) scheme. 9 lakh every year for five years for maintaining the shelter. A total of 75 persons from a dozen families and some individuals, residing near thecompost yard at Thiruveethipallam, were shifted to the newly-constructed building at Panchupettai in Big Kancheepuram area recently..