Thiruvananthapuram Corporation shifts family found to be living in a dilapidated house to a flat
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Thiruvananthapuram Corporation relocates impoverished family to new flat, provides support for education and welfare pensions.
The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation on Friday shifted a four-member family who have been living in a dilapidated one room shed at Muttathara in the capital to a vacant flat in a residential complex constructed by the civic body in Kalladimukham. Following media reports about the family’s plight, Mayor Arya Rajendran visited the family on Friday morning and issued orders to the officials concerned to allot the vacant flat to the family.
The family, consisting of a 12-year old girl, a 17-year old girl, their mother, Sudha, and bed-ridden grandmother has been living in poverty for the past few months as the mother was unable to go for work due to ill health. The Corporation officials made the basic arrangements at the flat, including beds and ceiling fans, before shifting the family to their new abode.
Ms. Rajendran handed over the allotment order and the key to the flat to Sudha, following which the house warming ceremony was conducted. She also directed the Corporation officials to take the necessary steps to ensure welfare pensions for the family, based on an application from the bed-ridden grandmother. The Mayor said that the Corporation will provide all support to the girls to continue their education. The family has been struggling to send them to school after they fell into poverty following the death of Sudha’s father last year.
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