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development areas, and land exposed to flooding, no new domestic huts are allowed. In non-prohibited areas temporary structures may be built with the permission of the District Office.
Clearances undertaken during the year freed 290.79 acres of land for development. A total of $734,694.45 was paid as ex-gratia com- pensation to people who had opened up land for cultivation without legal tenure before October 1954 and to pigbreeders and poultry farmers. Two hundred and eighteen shops were cleared, of which 176 qualified for ex-gratia cash payments and were paid $1,537,620.72 while 42 were found to be ineligible for such payments. In addition, 309 factories/workshops were cleared. Of these, 213 were resettled into resettlement factory estates, while 96 were not eligible for resettlement.
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