Nearly all the 46,000 people made homeless by the tsunami in the Andaman islands will get permanent homes by the end of 2007, a senior official said, but activists on Monday dismissed this as impossible. The 2004 tsunami killed or left missing about 3,500 people in the remote archipelago of 370,000 residents when it slammed into scores of islands. More than 9,700 families are still without permanent homes. "We are sure the work for construction of permanent shelters would be over by the end of 2007 and almost all the tsunami-hit homeless people would get their shelters by then,' Dharam Pal, the islands' relief commissioner, told reporters in Port Blair late on Sunday.