The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : "DMK regime ordered bridge on BOT basis"

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Tuesday, Jan 10, 2006

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"DMK regime ordered bridge on BOT basis"

Special Correspondent

AIADMK regime opted for building it with a HUDCO loan: Local Administration Minister

CHENNAI: Local Administration Minister K.P. Anbalagan on Monday insisted that it was the DMK Government that ordered the construction of the bridge across the Amaravathi on a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis in 1997.

In a statement, he said in 1996 the AIADMK Government decided against the construction of the bridge on a BOT basis and opted for building it witha loan from the HUDCO as a municipality project.

Though the Karur municipality passed a resolution in 1995 for taking up the construction on a BOT basis, the AIADMK Government did not approve the proposal.

While 90 per cent of the project cost was to be raised as a loan from the HUDCO, the Karur municipal commissioner was asked to seek a loan for the rest from the Municipal Urban Development Fund in a Government Order (GO) dated January 30, 1996.

Nowhere was it mentioned in the GO that the bridge should be constructed on a BOT basis, he said. It was only during the DMK regime a GO dated April 4, 1997 modifying the 1996 GO was passed for building the bridge on a BOT basis, he said.

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