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.
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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.
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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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