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Ensure quality of work, Rangasamy tells contractors

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PONDICHERRY, DEC. 15. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, has said that there has been expeditious implementation of schemes to develop infrastructure such as bridges, power supply, roads and school and hospital buildings in the Union Territory.

But the contractors, who has been assigned the works by the departments, should keep quality of work in mind as massive investment was being made. The structures should be durable for the sustained benefit of the people.

Laying the foundation of a four-lane bridge across the Ariyankuppam river on the Pondicherry-Cuddalore route today, Mr. Rangasamy said the bridge, the first of its kind in the whole of the Union Territory, would be constructed at a cost of Rs. 15 crores in eighteen months time. The bridge was absolutely necessary and inevitable. The present bridge dates back to 1888. With the current volume of traffic, vehicular movement and load on the bridge increasing manifold, there was absolute necessity to have a new and four-lane bridge.

He said he had asked all the departments to gear themselves for beautifying Pondicherry and the outlying regions so that a larger number of tourists would flow keeping the Union Territory their destination point.

The four-lane bridge was contemplated several years ago and as the permission of the Union Highways Ministry was necessary, certain procedural formality was involved to get the Centre's nod for the project.

Assistance to students

Listing the various schemes implemented so far, Mr. Rangasamy said the administration was reimbursing students doing professional courses in private colleges by providing assistance to the extent of 60 per cent of the total tuition fees levied by the colleges. He said that fishermen, handloom weavers and physically-challenged persons were getting monthly financial assistance.

He sought the cooperation of the people to keep Pondicherry a clean city.

T. Jayamoorthy, Independent member from Ariankuppam constituency, who presided, thanked the Chief Minister for sanctioning several developmental programmes for the constituency. With a number of overhead tanks having been constructed and water requirements of the residents almost fully taken care of by the PWD, there was no drinking water problem in Ariyankuppam constituency, he said.

The chief engineer of the PWD, V. Ramakrishnan, and the superintending engineer, R. Sundar Raju, listed the infrastructural facilities provided for various institutions. The Rs. 32-crore state-of-the-art maternity hospitals will soon come up, Mr. Ramakrishnan said.

[The four-lane bridge will measure 400 metres in length and 20.03 metres in width. It will come up on the western segment of the existing bridge).

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