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75% families of MUDP schemes yet to get documents

A study conducted by the Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC) revealed that around 75% families that were given land on lease-cum-tenure under Madras Urban Development Projects (MUDP) are yet to get their documents even after 30 years.

As per the report, the MUDP-1 and MUDP-2 were implemented with World Bank funds between 1977 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987 respectively. Apart from MUDP projects, the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Projects 1 and 2 were implemented from 1988 to 2004.

Under these, families in slum settlements were given land under lease-cum-tenure on the promise of handing over the documents once the payments were made.

Out of the total 298 settlements developed under MUDP projects, a study was conducted on settlements. As per the study, 48,459 households were given rights over the land but 75% of the households have not been given the documents yet. Of the 50 settlements taken up for the study, not a single document has been given to the families in 32 settlements.

“Residents of 18 settlements have taken efforts to avail sale deeds by residents, elected representatives, officials and other associations,” the report said.

The report added that discussions with communities reveal that there were multiple land-owning departments such as Chennai Corporation, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department and others.

“Therefore, transfer of land to Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board (TNUHDB) continues to remain a challenge, despite several GOs and even a High Court order. This affects the access to land tenure of the people. In many cases, people were also unable to provide information about the land-owning departments.”

Some of the key challenges pointed out by the report are transfer of land by the land-owning departments to TNUHDB and incomplete payments. Moreover, some families were not aware of any documents as they did not know about MUDP schemes.

“Since it has been nearly 4 decades since they were allotted these lands, some of the descendants of the original allottees do not have the necessary documents or basic information about the scheme details,” the report said.

The IRCDUC has urged the government to form a high-level committee to resolve the issue of transfer of land title.

Key challenges pointed out by the report are transfer of land by the land-owning departments to TNUHDB and incomplete payments. Moreover, some families were not aware of any documents as they did not know about MUDP schemes

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2022-10-04T07:00:00.0000000Z

2022-10-04T07:00:00.0000000Z

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