Two heritage buildings of Chennai Corporation — Ripon
Buildings and Victoria Public Hall — will sport a new look by the end of
this year.

Addressing the Assembly on Monday,
Municipal Administration Minister K.P. Munusamy said that the work to
restore the Ripon Buildings, the headquarters of the Corporation, will
be completed by October this year, to facilitate centenary celebration
of the heritage structure in November. The project to renovate Victoria
Public Hall too would be completed in July this year. The Corporation
has spent nearly Rs.11.06 crore towards renovating these two buildings.

This
fiscal, the Corporation proposes to construct five bridges across the
city to ease traffic congestion at a total cost of Rs.13 crore.
Residents of Bojaraja Nagar, Old Washermenpet, would soon have vehicular
subway in their area.

The civic agency also plans to
build a box culvert linking R.K. Link Road at Korattur and Jawaharlal
Nehru Salai at Baba Nagar and another culvert at Narayanapuram across
Keelkattalai tank surplus course. One more bridge would be constructed
to link Rajiv Gandhi Salai and East Coast Road. It will come up across
Buckingham canal connecting Thoraipakkam Murugesan Nagar and Pandiyan
Salai, Neelankarai. A box culvert at Padi Pudu Nagar Road across
Padikuppam canal will also be reconstructed in 2013-14.

As
the generation of solid waste has increased to 4,700 metric tonnes per
day after the city expansion, the Corporation is taking measures to set
up waste processing facilities at Minjur-Vallur and Kuthambakkam. Once
the tenders are settled and projects are started, garbage would not be
disposed at the Kodungaiyur and Perungudi sites.