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"We issued tokens to all the families and allocated houses in Vellalore," said a slum clearance board official.The plan was to allocate houses for the families in Arivoli Nagar. The buildings also included a place of worship.The slum clearance board had provided alternative houses for the residents in Vellalore. Otherwise, corporation officials will bring the house down," an official of the Slum Clearance Board said. Coimbatore: Continuing its drive against encroachments near waterbodies , the slum clearance board evicted 262 families from a slum along a canal near Podanur on Thursday.This is the second eviction carried out by the board this year after 630 houses near the Ukkadam Lake were removed last week. The eviction was carried out following a Supreme Court order directing civic bodies to remove encroachments along waterbodies.About two months ago, the slum clearance board had marked the houses near Athupalam area that had encroached the canal in the area..