Chander Kunj residents demand a years hire upfront to vacate

Families set to be evicted from their flats within the unstable Chander Kunj Army twin towers by the top of this month are decided to fall in line provided that the Army Welfare Housing Organisation (AWHO) credit hire for a yr to their financial institution accounts earlier than that.

This was after the AWHO objected to paying hire to all 208 affected households and got here up with a listing of 43 homeowners as eligible for hire at a gathering of the district committee — constituted with the District Collector as convener to supervise the demolition and reconstruction of the dual towers — held on Wednesday (August 6).

“We don’t know how they reached that quantity. Anyhow, we’re within the technique of accumulating self-certified sworn affidavits from all homeowners in compliance with the courtroom verdict and the Collector’s committee. We will then collate them and provides them to the Collector, full with checking account particulars, in one other 5 days. That homeowners won’t vacate until a yr’s hire is credited to their accounts stays non-negotiable,” stated Saji Thomas, president of the Chander Kunj Army Towers Apartment Owners Association (CATAOA), which is a constituent of the Collector’s committee.

District Collector N.SK. Umesh additionally insisted that AWHO ought to pay condominium homeowners a displacement cost of ₹30,000 as agreed. It was additionally determined that the Thripunithura municipal secretary would subject the evacuation notices to the homeowners.

The assembly additionally initiated dialogue on the pre-qualification circumstances for the appointment of a Project Management Consultant (PMC) forward of triggering tender formalities. CATAOA’s demand {that a} agency of worldwide reputation be appointed as PMC has been authorised in precept. AWHO may also must take crucial measures for securing numerous approvals, together with these beneath the Coastal Zone Regulation norms.

Incidentally, this was the final assembly to be chaired by Mr. Umesh, who has been transferred as Director of General Education within the newest reshuffle of prime bureaucrats. He might be changed by G. Priyanka, the current Palakkad Collector. The outgoing Collector, although, has promised to totally replace his alternative on the district committee in order that its functioning will not be affected in any manner. CATAOA felicitated Mr. Umesh forward of his imminent switch.

During its earlier conferences, the district committee had set November 9, 2025, because the tentative date for the demolition of the dual towers of the Chander Kunj Army Towers in Vyttila, and October 31, 2029, for handing over the newly constructed flats.