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Ludhiana, September 19Allotment letters of flats, which were constructed under the Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP), were given to 36 families living in a slum area of Ward Number 23 of the city. After getting the allotment letters, these dwellers started breaking their slum structures on their own, he said. “Earlier, people had staged a protest when the MC had made an attempt to get the slum land vacated. I had then promised the slum dwellers that they would be shifted to the flats before getting their slums vacated. Now, I arranged Rs 11 lakh, which was required to be submitted to the MC for allotment of the flats,” he added..