Stalin opens Rs 74.24crore worth projects in Tirunelveli

MADURAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday inaugurated 29 projects in Tirunelveli districts which were completed at a cost of Rs 74.24 crore.
Stalin also laid the foundation stone for 727 new projects in the district that would be completed at a cost of Rs 156.28 crore. He gave away welfare measures worth Rs 111.78 crore to 30,658 beneficiaries during the event.
The projects the chief minister inaugurated include modernized VOC stadium in the city, a multipurpose hall on the Manakavalam Pillai Hospital Road, a 5 MW solar power plant at Ramayanpatti.
He inaugurated integrated agriculture extension buildings at Palayamkottai, Cheranmadevi, Mukkudal/Pappakudi and sub-agriculture extension buildings at Erwadi, Padmaneri, Munnerpallam and Moolakaraipatti. Twelve classrooms, four staff rooms and a toilet complex in Tirunelveli Law College were also inaugurated.
The CM inaugurated a building for Vadakku Chezhianallur Government Higher Secondary School. The building was constructed at a cost of Rs 4.39 crore. He inaugurated classrooms and a lab in Gangaikondan Government Higher Secondary School.
Anganwadi buildings, classrooms, labs, panchayat union offices constructed under rural development and panchayat raj department, parks at Teachers Colony, Ambasamudram and Agasthiya Puram, Vickramasingapuram, a library in Ondiveeran memorial hall and a Siddha hospital at Thiruvengadam Primary Health Care Centre were also inaugurated by the chief minister.
Some of the major projects the chief minister laid foundation stone are: a heart, neuro, kidney and liver diseases cluster building at Tirunelveli Medical College at a cost of Rs 72.10 crore, 722 various projects to the tune of Rs 72.36 crore under the rural development and panchayat raj department, a country chicken hatchery at a cost of Rs 9.42 crore at Abishekapatti, crematorium work in Vikramasingapuram municipality at a cost of Rs 1.35 crore and a memorial arch and an auditorium for Subramanya Bharathi and VO Chidambaranar at Madurai Thiraviam Thayumanavar Hindu College at a cost of Rs 1.05 crore.
State ministers K N Nehru, K K S S R Ramachandran, Thangam Thennarasu, Geetha Jeevan, Anitha Radhakrishnan, R S Rajakannappan, Mano Thangaraj, Tirunelveli MP Gnanadiraviam, MLAs, Abdul Wahab, Nayinar Nagendran, mayor Saravanan, deputy mayor K R Raji, collector Vishnu, corporation commissioner Sivakrishnamurthy and others were present.