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.