A house for the islander

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A year has passed since the killer tsunami devastated the islands, but the Rs 600-crore corpus set aside by the Central government for rehabilitation of those who lost their homes, is yet to be utilised. The reason: the Centre can't make up its mind on the design for tribal housing, caught as it is between proposals from its own building agencies and from non-governmental organisations (ngos). While the ngo s are lobbying hard for their model of traditional timber houses approved by the Planning Commission and the home ministry, the Centre's building agencies