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Kalaignar Veettu Vasathi Thittam to replace huts

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The DMK government launched a scheme to convert thatched rural huts into permanent concrete houses over six years.

In 2010 the Karunanidhi government introduced the Kalaignar Veettu Vasathi Thittam (Kalaignar Housing Scheme) to convert thatched huts into concrete houses. The plan was to replace huts built before 1 January 2010 over six years starting in 2010-11. According to the 2001 Census, about a third of rural houses in the state were huts. Deputy Chief Minister M. K. Stalin presented details of the scheme in the Assembly.

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