Chandigarh, July 09: Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami today said no more demolition drives would be carried out in the city before alternative arrangements for the affected people were made. "Our policy is that no one should be homeless. If proper planned colonies for slum dwellers are made, then haphazard growth of slums can be checked," he told reporters here.
Former MP and member of the national executive of the BJP Satya Pal Jain, who accompanied Swami, said that the plan of the city made by Frenchman Le Corbusier years ago was insufficient.
"The need of the hour was to provide shelter to those living in slums here to make the city slum-free and to preserve its character as 'city beautiful, he added.

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