chennai just 9 of the total child population in chennais kannagi nagar one of the largest slum resettlement sites in the country has education facilities says a study schools in the area have only 2000 seats for the 20000 schoolgoing children almost 35 of children in the 1518 age group are dropouts and 42 are forced to commute more than 20km to other schools the 19 integrated child development services centres in the colony are barely able to accommodate 400 children when the number of children in the 06 age group is 4900 in absence of advanced health care facilities 98 of the population is forced to depend on expensive private facilities poor living standards and continuing plight of chennais displaced population are revealed in the report forced to the fringes disasters of resettlements in india done by the information and resource centre for the deprived urban communities ircduc and housing and land rights network hlrn and released here on wednesday the total number of displaced families moving to kannagi nagar has increased from 2000 to 15656 in the last 14 years looking at the gaps in the massive resettlement exercise initiated by the government in the last decade the study includes suggestions to improve the quality of living of more than 21000 households in kannagi nagar and nearby semmenchery a close examination of the various issues in kannagi nagar reveals that the state has treated the urban poor as experimental subjects and has forced them out of the city to distant uninhabitable sites the study said considering that people in these areas have been denied basic facilities including education and health options the report said such resettlement would have a long term socioeconomic impact involving multiple human rights violations based on data collected the report said almost 60 of kannagi nagar residents had been evicted from their abodes in the city without any legal notices about 38 of the evictions were during the midacademic year affecting school children at the site families were crammed into shelters ranging in size from 195 sq ft to 310 sq ft the study citing instances of violence against women in kannagi nagar said the incidence of child marriage was also increasing in the area in the absence of social supportive systems and schools noting that a number of social welfare programmes announced had never materialised the report demanded immediate implementation of basic health care and education facilities besides ensuring safety of women and girl children