Main campus of Udayam project launched

‘Kozhikode to have no street dwellers’

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday virtually opened the fourth and main campus of Udayam project of the Kozhikode district administration on the premises of the Institute of Dermatology at Chevayur here on Tuesday. The Chief Minister appreciated the efforts made by the district administration to provide a home to the steet dwellers and wished that the Udayam project would be able to provide financial stability and independence to the people the district administration had picked up off the street at the beginning of the COVID outbreak in 2020. Udayam is a project that envisions complete rehabilitation of rough sleepers. Apart from the new campus, there are three other campuses at Mankavu, Vellimadukunnu, and East Hill. At the beginning of the project, around 1,400 such people were identified with the help of voluntary organisations and local people and were temporarily rehabilitated.