177 Velampeta families to get flats where their huts stand; ₹40 crore slum redevelopment begins in Visakhapatnam

Minister P. Narayana lays the foundation stone for the State’s first in-situ slum redevelopment, to be built in nine months with shear-wall technology; each family gets ₹3,000 a month in rent meanwhile, and residents who have waited decades say it feels like a dream