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Thursday, Dec 30, 2004

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MGR bus stand to get a facelift

By Our Special Correspondent

SALEM, DEC. 29. The new MGR integrated bus stand in the city would soon get a facelift at a cost of Rs. 25 lakhs.

A non-Governmental organisation, AVR Swarna Mahal, in association with the Salem Corporation, has decided to initiate a string of projects to keep the bus stand, an important transit point for hundreds of passengers in this part of State, neat and clean.

This massive infrastructure, being maintained by the Salem Corporation, had been left to rot in recent times.

Realising the inherent need for its renovation and the constraints of the Corporation, the Managing Director of the A.V.R. Swarna Mahal, A. B. Sudarsanam and its Director A. B. S. Sanjjay, came forward to maintain the bus terminal. The Council also gave its consent.

Passenger-friendly facilities

The organisation has decided to add certain facilities to the existing infrastructure in the bus stand such as chairs, pavements, dustbins and tree saplings.

The toilets also would be maintained. The Mayor, R. Sureshkumar, Commissioner, T. Paulsamy and a host of officials from the Corporation took part in a simple function in which bhoomi poojas were performed today for the new projects.

Welcoming the initiative of the organisation, the Mayor, said that massive infrastructure was created for the people's utility. But the users had failed to maintain it.

Plea to staff

He called upon the drivers and conductors of the buses and those who were eking out their livelihood in the terminal to keep the bus stand clean.

The crew should discourage the passengers from urinating in open places, which was a major health hazard, he said.

The Commissioner said that the Corporation would soon take up the drainage works for the bus terminal at a cost of Rs. 10 lakhs.

He asked the bus crew not to park the vehicles at no-parking zones and thus prompting the passengers to litter and urinate both at the entry and exit points of the bus stand.

Mr. Sudarsanam, said that the AVR organisation had been long associated with various social welfare activities in the city.

The bus stand would soon have rows of chairs, aesthetically designed plastic dustbins, neat pavements, signboards both in English and Tamil, Railway timetable and other passenger-friendly facilities.

The maintenance would be carried out in association with the sanitary workers from the Corporation.

Tree saplings were also planted on the occasion.

Industrialist Rajamani, Salem Civil Engineers Association president, Bhaskar, and Salem Tree Club president, Krishnamurthy, spoke.

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