Social Justice

We know caste system still prevails in India. It may not be much visible in cities. But the caste clashes and discrimination based on caste exists in villages. To address this issue and to prove that even in villages people of different casts could live together friendly and peacefully an experiment was made in Kuthambakkam. The experiment of building a residential area, where people with different casts live together was proposed by Kuthambakkam panchayat to the Tamilnadu Government in 1996.

     The Tamilnadu Government appreciated the initiative and the Samathuvapuram Scheme was launched. Kuthambakkam got a Samathuvapuram sanctioned. As the result of committed effort for land allocation, finding beneficiaries, introducing new architectural models this Samathuvapuram has become one of the best out of 140 Samathuvapuram built across Tamilnadu.

Kuthambakkam Samathuvapuram has set an example of people's participation in building a community residence.