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Speaker reviews development works in Mannadipet

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, AUG. 12. The Pondicherry Assembly Speaker, M.D.R. Ramachandran, has assured the residents of various villages in Mannadipet constituency that basic amenities would be further improved.

Meeting the people at their doorsteps during a tour of the constituency (from where he was elected to the Assembly) on Wednesday, Mr. Ramachandran reviewed the development works completed and also the progress of works under way using funds allotted under the MLA Area Development Programme. The works were launched in cooperation with the Local Administration Department in the constituency.

A release from the office of the Speaker said today that Rs 3.01 crores had been spent on various schemes under the Programme to benefit villagers in the constituency during the last three years.

Road works

While 111 works had been completed since the introduction of the MLA Area Development programme in 2001 with an outlay of Rs 2.12 crores, a total of 30 development projects had been intensively taken up involving an expenditure of Rs. 88.93 lakhs, the release said.

Mr. Ramachandran acquainted himself with details of work done to lay roads, augment drinking water supply, repair drainage canals and asked the officers of the Public Works Department, who accompanied him during his visit to the villages, to expedite the construction of the bridge across the Sankarabarani river and also a bed dam on the river bed.

The Tirukanoor main road would be converted into a cement road under a scheme of the PWD, he said.

Distribution of house site pattas to the poor and also conferment of ownership of the sites where the homeless were now residing and also renovation of temples were some of the issues the Speaker discussed with the officers and members of trustees of the local temples during his visit.

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