The Hindu 20.11.2009

“Take steps to hand over roads to Corporation”

Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI: The Federation of Consumer and Service Organisations has appealed to the Deputy Chief Minister, M. K. Stalin, to instruct the State Highways Department to hand over the roads under its jurisdiction within the city Corporation limits to the civic body to enable their development.

In a representation, M. Sekaran, Convenor of the federation, said about 17 km of roads were under the Highways Department. The Tiruchi Corporation was planning to improve the city roads under the Tamil Nadu Urban Road Improvement Project (TURIP) and unless these stretches were handed over to the civic body the Corporation would not be able to develop the roads under the project.

The Corporation was also expecting to be covered under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, he pointed out.

The road stretches in the city were part of various highways and remained isolated from the overall development works taken up by the Corporation, he said. Once the stretches were handed over to the Corporation, they could also be included under the civic body’s development plans, he said.