Kerala CM Lays Foundation Stone For Township To Rehabilitate Wayanad Landslide Victims

The township will include single-storeyed houses on plots of seven cents each on 64 hectares of land acquired by the government along the Kalpetta bypass.

PTI

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the model township for rehabilitating those who lost their homes in the landslide which hit the Chooralmala-Mundakkai areas of this hill district last year.

The township will be built on government-acquired land in Elston Estate at Kalpetta in Wayanad.

Congress MP from Wayanad, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, was also present at the event.

The township shall comprise of 1,000 square feet of single-storeyed houses on plots of seven cents each on the 64 hectares of land acquired by the government along the Kalpetta bypass.

A major landslide struck the Mundakkai and Chooralmala regions on July 30 last year, almost completely decimating both areas, killing over 200 people, and injuring many others.

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