Around 100 members of the Tamizhaga Veettu Vasathi Vaaria Orunkinantha Othukeetalarkal Nalah Sangam have decided to petition Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and the Managing Director of the Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) on Thursday, seeking title deeds for the house sites allotted to them on the 65.32 acres at Ganapathy Maa Nagar in the mid 1990s.
State General Secretary of the association K. Jayachandran said that the decision was taken at the “waiting till obtaining title deeds protest” organised by them at the TNHB office in Tatabad, on Monday.
More than 300 TNHB allottees took part in the protest to condemn the alleged fleecing behind rate fixation for their house sites.
Mr. Jayachandran said that in 2013 the TNHB fixed the rate of a cent at Rs. 17,000, according to which the allottees should pay Rs. 2.86 lakh per ground – that includes interest for the land from January 1989.
“Later the land rate was reduced to Rs. 6,000 per cent – as finalised with the former land owners,” he said.
He claimed that contrarily the housing board has asked the allottees to pay Rs. 5.34 lakh per ground, despite the more than 60 per cent drop in the actual price fixed for the land.
The protest was withdrawn after the Superintending Engineer of TNHB V. Kandhasamy assured to make a representation on the cause to authorities concerned, in Chennai.
With this forwarded representation the allottees are planning to meet petition the Chief Minister and top TNHB official, with hope of working out a logical price for the land and put an end to the struggle for title deed for more than 20 years.
They seek title deeds for the house sites allotted to them on the 65.32 acres at Ganapathy Maa Nagar in the mid 1990s.