NAGAPATTINAM: Tsunami relief and rehabilitation works being carried out in Tamil Nadu with the assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are satisfactory, according to ADB president Haruhiko Kuroda. Talking to mediapersons after inspecting rehabilitation works at Vedaranyam, Velankanni and Nagapattinam areas in Nagapattinam district on Saturday, Mr. Kuroda said the ADB had provided $ 200 million as grant and loan assistance for Tamil Nadu and Kerala for tsunami rehabilitation works.
The ADB president said nearly 70 per cent of the tsunami relief works had been completed in Tamil Nadu. Nearly Rs.42.5 crore was being spent to develop the Nagapattinam port.
Welfare assistance
Earlier, the ADB president, accompanied by Tadashi Kondo, country director, ADB; Deepak Singh, Engineering Specialist, ADB; Ashok Lahiri, Executive Director, ADB; C.V. Sankar, Officer on Special Duty, Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation department and Hitesh Kumar Makwana, Joint Commissioner, Municipal Administration, distributed welfare assistance to salt workers at Agasthiampalli, a coastal hamlet near Vedaranyam. The ADB president inaugurated the newly-laid Pudupalli road, re-laid at a cost of Rs.16.39 lakh.
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