Two buildings at a middle school in Korukkai in Thiruthuraipoondi block was rebuilt by the All India BSNL Pensioners Welfare Association and handed over to the school authorities on Sunday.
Disclosing this in a press release, president, AIBSNLPWA, TN Circle, V. Ramarao said that the Association collected ₹14 lakh from its 13,000 members for taking up relief and restoration works in the Gaja-affected areas.
Out of this, a sum of ₹8.50 lakh was spent for distribution of clothes, bedsheets and other materials and towards disbursement of 4,000 kilograms of rice to the affected people in Vedaranyam, Pattukottai, Tiruvarur and Thiruthuraipoondi areas on December 4 last year.
The remaining amount was used for the renovation of the damaged buildings at the Thiruvalluvar Arul Neri Middle School, run by the Kundrakudi Aadheenam at Korukkai in Thiruthuraipoondi block, Tiruvarur district.
The two classroom blocks, having latest zinc sheet roofs and separate entrances to five classrooms, could accommodate 175 students comfortably, he said.
The keys of the newly constructed classrooms were handed over to the school headmaster, Rajendran, on Sunday by Mr. Ramarao and Association secretary R.Venkatachalam.