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15 political appointees for state-owned corporations

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JUNE 19. In a move to accommodate ruling party functionaries, the government today named 15 political appointees to head various state-owned corporations in Tamil Nadu. The list includes the Housing Board, the Tourism Development Corporation and the Textbook Corporation.

The new Chairpersons of the corporations are:

R. Murugaiah Pandian - Agricultural Marketing Board.

Edapadi K. Palanichamy - Cements Corporation.

M. Paranjothi - Medical Services Corporation.

Sindhu Ravichandran - Small Industries Development Corporation.

Ku. Thangamuthu - Textbook Corporation.

Adhi Rajaram - Tourism Development Corporation.

M.G. Srinivasan - Tea Plantation Corporation.

A. Arunmozhi Dhevan - Housing Board.

V. Saroja - Adi Dravidar Housing Development Corporation.

P. Sendur Pandian - Medicinal Plant Farms and Hebal Medicine Corporation.

M. Jayraman - Backward Classes Economic Development Corporation.

R. Amirthaganesan - Fisheries Development Corporation.

M. Ravichandran - Handicrafts Development Corporation.

Justin Selvaraj - Minorities Economic Development Corporation.

V. Marudaraj - Salt Corporation.

A former Chief Secretary, Sukavaneshvar, who was Chairman, Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation, has been shifted to head the Tamil Nadu Industrial Investment Corporation, following the retirement of P.V. Rajaraman.

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