Abandoned by her husband 12 years ago, and without a home of her own, Salomi Mathai and her two children had been living at the mercy of their close relatives. Until this month.
This is a first-of-its-kind project in Kerala, where an official survey had identified 5.78 lakh homeless families — and the seven-storey 271-unit complex at Adimali is the first off the block. Each 500-sq-ft unit has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a small work area and a living room, all with tiled floors.
Officials of the Local Self Governing Department, which oversees the project, say the Adimali complex cost Rs 26 crore to build, including around Rs 11 lakh for each unit.
Read more of this in a report by Shaju Philip published in The Indian Express...
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