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Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board created

· Chennai

The Karunanidhi government created the Slum Clearance Board to replace slums with tenements, later backed by a 1971 Act.

The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board was created in September 1970 by the Karunanidhi government to improve living conditions in urban slums. It was given statutory backing by the Tamil Nadu Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1971. The board built multi-storey tenements and undertook slum improvement and resettlement, especially in Madras. It is now known as the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board.

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