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APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IV
Summary of Clearance and Resettlement Operations
A.
Land Clearances.
(1.4.56 to 31.3.57)
Purposes for which
Number of
Acres cleared.
land is required.
persons.
1. Resettlement Schemes
7.8
3,533
༡.
Other Housing Schemes
10.9
5,655
3.
Schools and Welfare Centres
5.8
2,951
4.
Parks and Playgrounds
5.6
2,866
5.
Factories and Godɔwns
4.7
2,231
6.
Public Buildings
2.9
2,075
7. Roads, Drains and Waterworks
6.7
5,189
8.
Miscellaneous
10.1
1,825
Totals
54.5 acres
26,325 persons
B. Squatter Fire Victims
nil
9,302
Grand Totals
54.5 acres
35,627 persons
CHAPTER V
THE MULTI-STOREY ESTATES
A. General Description.
52. The destination of the lorries taking families from a squatter area on moving day will nowadays almost always be a multi-storey estate. On arrival there the head of household will present his letter of authority to the estate office and will in exchange receive his rent card on which his room number and the amount of rent due for the first month wili already have been entered. He then pays his first month's rent at the Treasury Officer next door where the shroff gives a fixed fee receipt and enters the receipt number on the rent card. The rent receipt is then pasted on a large piece of cardboard known as an occupancy card which will have on it a group photograph of the whole family. This occupancy card must always be displayed in the room occupied in order that the estate staff may see at a glance both whether rent payments are up to date and whether any unauthorized persons are living in the room. After this procedure the members of the family cease to be squatters and are henceforward known as 'settlers', for want of a better term.
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