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குடிசைகள் இல்லாத தமிழ்நாட்டை உருவாக்க வேண்டும் என நான் முன்னெடுத்துவந்த பிரச்சாரத்தை நீங்கள் அறிவீர்கள். எனது முயற்சி வீண்போகவில்லை தமிழக அரசு தமிழ்நாட்டின் கிராமப் புறங்களில் உள்ள இருபத்தொரு லட்சம் குடிசைகளையும் எதிர்வரும் ஆறு ஆண்டுகளில் கான்கிரீட் வீடுகளாக கட்டிக் கொடுக்கும் மாபெரும் திட்டத்தை அறிவித்துள்ளது. நடப்பு ஆண்டில்

மூன்று லட்சம் வீடுகள் ஆயிரத்து எண்ணூறு கோடி ரூபாயில் கட்டப்படும் எனவும் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.நேற்று கவர்னர் தனது உரையில் அதற்கான அறிவிப்பை செய்துள்ளார் . இந்தப் பிரச்சாரத்தில் எனக்கு உறுதுணையாக நின்ற ஜுனியர் விகடன் மற்றும் ஆனந்த விகடன் பத்திரிகைகளின் ஆசிரியர்களுக்கு நன்றி.
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Part of the Address delivered by the Governor of Tamilnadu In the Legislative Assembly, Tamilnadu on 06.01.2010  

40. It was only Hon’ble Chief Minister Kalaignar who had established the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board in 1970 to construct tenements in the place of urban slums and implemented the scheme for constructing free houses for the Adi Dravidars in rural areas for the first time in the country in 1974. It was also only Kalaignar who had established Periyar Memorial Samathuvapurams as embodiment of the Kural ‘All human beings are born equal’. Even in today’s positive environment when our country and state are consistently growing with concomitant improvement in the quality of the life of the people, we witness with pain a situation where the demand for housing, one of the most basic needs, is not yet fully met. While this Government has ensured the social security and food security of the common man through various special schemes and has also made creditable achievements in creating new infrastructure in the last three and half years, a miserable situation still exists where, across the State poor people are living in mud-walled houses with thatched roofs, being subjected to natural calamities. Based on the last census and other assessments, the number of such houses in the rural areas of our state is estimated to be around 21 lakhs. If all these huts are to be converted into permanent houses in our state, only under the present centrally assisted scheme of Indira Awaz Yojana executed all over the country, then it would take another 30 years. Considering this aspect, in the first phase, with a view to bringing light in the lives of the poor living in these 21 lakh huts, this Government has now designed a fully State Government funded, mega project to convert all these huts into concrete roofed permanent houses which will be given free of cost to the beneficiaries. I take immense pleasure in announcing that, under this scheme, commencing from 2010-2011, 21 lakh mud-walled houses with thatched roof will be converted into permanent houses in six years. In the coming financial year, being the first year of this scheme, three lakh permanent houses will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs.1,800 crores. This noble scheme which would pave for hutless villages will be called ‘Kalaignar Housing Scheme’.