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Top priority to infrastructure development: Minister

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Coimbatore: Huge investments had gone into infrastructure development in the State, which has made Tamil Nadu an ideal destination for industries to set up shops, Minister for Local Administration and Information & Public Relations, K.P. Anbazhagan, said on Saturday.

Speaking at a function organised to inaugurate the renovated Tamil Nadu Institute of Urban Studies in the city, he said the Government had so far spent Rs. 2,400 crores on rural drinking water supply schemes, Rs. 620 crores for urban water supply schemes besides Rs. 186 crores on Under Ground Drainage (UGD) schemes.

Total sanitation project

Once in every four years, 15 villages in the State were being chosen for the implementation of the total sanitation project. The Centre had declared 39 villages in the country as those with total sanitation and of which Tamil Nadu had 13 villages, he said.

The State had bagged even the only award provided by the Centre for a panchayat union with total sanitation facilities, he pointed out.

For rural infrastructure improvement under the `Namadhu Gramam' scheme, a sum of Rs. 182.96 crores was provided to 12,000 villages during the last fiscal and an allotment of Rs. 180.50 crores had been made for the current fiscal, he said.

By virtue of focus on infrastructure, a recent survey by the United Nations had named Tamil Nadu as a second ideal destination for industrial investment next to Sydney in Australia.

The Tamil Nadu Institute of Urban Studies, which came into being in 1981, had been renovated at a cost of Rs.54 crores and had been equipped with conference hall, computer centres, rooms for trainees and a library.

The Director of the Centre, M. Nageshwara Rao released the souvenir. Mr. K.P. Anbazhagan received the first copy.

Ministers, S.M. Velusamy (Backward Classes Welfare), P.V.Damodiran (Animal Husbandry), Mayor T. Malaravan, Collector, S. Kosalaraman, Commissioner of Municipal Administration, Chennai, Ambuj Sharma, Joint Commissioner of Municipal Administration, Chennai, Hithesh Kumar Makwana, Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner, Anil Meshram and others took part.

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