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The Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board (TNUHDB) has commenced operation of 270 tenements successful Coimbatore metropolis astatine an estimated outgo of ₹40.51 crore arsenic portion of the rehabilitation task for conservancy workers displaced for the Ukkadam flyover works.
The project, which began successful February this year, is expected to beryllium completed by June 2027. The lodging units are being constructed connected the tract of the aged Ukkadam food marketplace on the Ukkadam–Selvapuram bypass road.
Around 500 families from CMC Colony were shifted to impermanent shelters adjacent Pullukadu successful 2019 aft their huts were cleared for the flyover project. The families were assured of imperishable lodging wrong 2 years.
In the archetypal signifier of the rehabilitation initiative, TNUHDB constructed 222 tenements astatine a outgo of ₹25.25 crore successful 2024. Delay successful allotment led to repeated representations and protests by conservancy workers, who continued to unrecorded successful impermanent shelters for respective years. The tenements were yet allotted to beneficiaries successful June 2025.
The aged Ukkadam food marketplace was demolished by the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation successful February 2025 to facilitate the 2nd signifier of the lodging task aft food traders were relocated to the caller marketplace astatine Pullukadu.
