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vii) It was further narrated that action plan to identify and remove encroachments has been worked out by the District collector, Chennai for 38 tanks in Chennai District maintained by Public Works Department and encroachments are identified in those tanks and action is being taken to remove and resettling the encroached families. It was stated that about 536 encroachments have been removed from Korattur tank in Chennai District and restored about 50 acres of water body poromboke land and http://www.judis.nic.in resettlement of families was also done in coordination with TNSCB. It was also submitted that in order to restore the waterways in Chennai City, the Chief Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu / Chairperson of CRRT conducts periodical review meetings for monitoring the progress of works. In pursuance to the orders passed by this Hon’ble Bench on 07.01.2019, the Chief Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu convened a meeting on 01.02.2019, wherein eviction of encroachments in Buckingham Canal has been reviewed as a special case on priority;

viii) It was further stated that the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB), in their Letter No. SCB/SP/48/2018/Dated 06.02.2019 addressed to the PWD/WRD has come up with an implementation schedule for Rehabilitation & Resettlement of Slum families squatting on the waterways of Adayar, Cooum and Buckingham canal. The TNSCB in co-ordination with the CRRT, so far 14,400 families were rehabilitated and the available housing units for immediate occupation with TNSCB is 2644 Nos. The approved AHP (Affordable Housing Project) units in Chennai District under PMAY are 29375 Nos., which are under various stages of construction and expected to be completed by 2020-2021. For the remaining 24,849 families, lands are being identified within Chennai Metropolitan Area and in the outskirts of Chennai. It was is also submitted by TNSCB that the cost of http://www.judis.nic.in construction is shared by the Government of India & Government of Tamil Nadu grant and 10% from beneficiary contribution (Rs.1.5Lakh), which is now being given by CRRT to TNSCB. Further, it has been proposed to rehabilitate around 38,000 families from Buckingham canal and other water bodies for which world Bank has agreed for funding the projects in Chennai;

ix) It was also stated in the Report that the TNSCB has prioritized the implementation of resettlement and rehabilitation process for evicting the remaining encroachers along the major waterways as below;

a) Ready for the occupation units (2644 Nos) can be utilized for rehabilitation of slum families along the waterways;

b) Approved AHP projects (29375 Nos) are being expedited, completed and allotted as and when the construction is completed. The maximum time period will be 2019-2021;

x) It was reiterated in the Report by the TNSCB that the Housing and Urban Development Department is also engaging with Asian Development Bank for construction of additional houses in the State, which are likely to be finalized soon. In view of the above implementation schedule of TNSCB, all the slum families along the waterways are proposed to be rehabilitated within a time period of four years (2019-2022) in different phases. It was further stipulated that only 2644 Nos. of tenements are available right now for occupation, which is inadequate for rehabilitating the slums of Buckingham canal. The TNSCB has proposed to rehabilitate the slum dwellers along the Buckingham canal on priority with the maximum time period of 2 years (2019-21) based on the fact that the approved AHP projects (29375 Nos) are being expedited, completed and allotted as and when the construction is completed. In the mean time, PWD/WRD would expedite the demarcation of boundaries of South (24kms), Central (7kms) and North Buckingham Canal (17kms), conducting Bio-metric survey to the slum dwellers and will be completed within the period of 2 years in such a manner that a period of 8 months of each for 3 segments of South, Central and North Buckingham canal will be programmed to complete the same. Once these procedures are expedited, eviction of slums will be done on a war footing manner and rehabilitated to the newly constructed tenements, http://www.judis.nic.in which are proposed to be ready for occupation after 2 years.