AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): With an aim to make slum free city the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Friday conducted an eviction drive at Agartala Radhanagar area. More than 30 families have been evacuated on Fridayfrom the area and were asked to shift to the newly constructed flats at Radhanagar.

However the construction of flats has already been completed. Earlier talking to the reporters Minister Manik Dey said that the housing project which would house a total of 128 slum families at Agartala Radhanagar would be opened up officially on May 25 by CM Manik Sarkar.

He said that the families had already allowed entering their respective rooms in the flats after the keys were provided to that through the procedure of lottery.

However the remaining 64 houses would be allocated with flats once the 120 flat owners move to the newly constructed flats at Rdahanagar.

The Municipal Corporation has been assigned for the completion of the work of construction of another flats at Joynagar which is also been proposed under the housing project. A total of 192 flats have been constructed with an aim to achieve a slum-free Tripura in phased manner.

Maintaining the legal procedure the distribution of flats to their respective owners has already started and would be completed by June first week, said Dey.

The Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) has already prepared a Slum Free City (SFC) Action Plan to develop basic amenities and other facilities in the recognized slum areas of the city.