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WelfareMadras State (Congress era)

Madras State Housing Board formed

· Chennai

The City Improvement Trust of 1947 was expanded into a statewide housing board, later the Tamil Nadu Housing Board.

A City Improvement Trust was formed in 1947 to meet the housing needs of Madras city. In 1961 it was reorganised into a full housing board, later named the Tamil Nadu Housing Board, to serve the whole state amid urban growth and migration to cities. The board later developed planned neighbourhoods in Madras such as Anna Nagar, Besant Nagar and K. K. Nagar. It works under the state's housing department.

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