Two buildings attached to hospitals and one building for the Cheyyar
Municipal Office were declared open by the Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa
from Kodanadu through a videoconferencing session Monday.

The
building at the Vellore Government Medical College Hospital, constructed
at a cost of ` 6. 75 crore, houses 125 facilities with beds for the
Pediatric and Gynaecology wards. The four-storeyed building will have
neonatal, antenatal, post operative and intensive care units along with
two operation theatres at the premises.

College Dean Dr
Sivakumar, Resident Medical Officer Dr Arunan, PWD officials Dr
Minnalkodi (head, department of Gynecology) and Dr Theranirajan (Head
department of Pediatrics), Local MLA M Kalaiarasu were present on the
occasion.

The other hospital building, constructed at a cost of `
1. 1 crore, supports a combined facility for child health and out
patient wards at the Government Hospital, Ambur.  Municipal Chairperson
Sangeetha Balasubramani, Medical Officer Dr Noorusyed, councillors and
other officials were present on the occasion.The CM had also given nod
to the commencement of functioning of a `99.9 lakh worth building to
house the municipal office for the Cheyyar town (Thiruvathipuram),
Tiruvannamalai district.  Municipal Chairperson Pavai Ravichandran,
councillors and officials from pertinent departments were present on the
occasion.

Also Jayalalithaa on Monday inaugurated 333 new buses
and 81 refurbished buses, and distributed pension and retirement
benefits to the tune of `154.26 crore to 5,151 persons. She also
inaugurated new buildings constructed at a cost of `2.37 crore at the
engineering college run by the Transport Department.

She handed
over keys of new buses to seven drivers at her camp office in Kodanadu
in the Nilgiris district and flagged off the new buses. Four pensioners
of the transport corporations received retirement and pension benefits
from the CM.

The new building at the  Institute of Road and
Transport Technology at Chithode in Erode districts, was constructed on
15,392 sqft and at a cost of `1.16 crore. A hostel for post-graduate
students was also built on an area of 12,917 sqft, at a cost of `21.11
lakh.

The pension and retirement benefits to the tune of `5.52
crore would be given to 247 employees who retired in October 2013.
Gratuity to the tune of `140.68 crore to 4,321 employees who retired in
2011 and 2012 and `8.6 crore to 583 pensioners who retired from service
during the period of May 2012 to June 2013.  In all, 5,151 pensioners
would get retirement benefits to the tune of `154.26 crore. The CM
handed over loan approval orders to the tune of `6 crore to 106 first
generation entrepreneurs from Coimbatore and Tirupur.