Slum dwellers get allotment letters of flats

  • | Friday | 20th September, 2019

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.

Ludhiana, September 19 Allotment 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. MLA from the Ludhiana East constituency, Sanjay Talwar, said this today. Talwar said these persons were living in slums that were located on a road opposite Vishwanath Temple in Rajiv Gandhi Colony. 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. — TNS

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