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Aranthangi municipal office to get new building

Staff Reporter

The design for the office and the council hall obtained

ARANTHANGI: The Aranthangi municipality will get a new office building and a council hall at an estimate of Rs.75 lakh.

The building will accommodate the municipal office in the ground floor and its council hall on the first floor.

The design for the office and the council hall has been obtained.

In the first phase, the first floor is to be constructed at an estimate of Rs.50 lakh from out of Rs.30 lakh sanctioned by the Government and Rs.20 lakh contributed by the municipality. Work on the construction of the council hall will be taken up in course of time after the Government released the second instalment of Rs.25 lakh, according to the Municipal Chairman, P. Mariappan.

Presiding over a council meeting here on Monday, he said that the plinth areas would be 5,638 square feet and 3,723 square feet for the office premises and the council hall respectively.

He also said that the Government had sanctioned Rs.24 lakh for providing road facility and another Rs.10 lakh for carrying out improvements to waterbodies.

He pointed out that efforts were being taken to get the sprawling site of the Chathiram grounds for constructing a new bus stand.

Presently, the Chathiram grounds, under the jurisdiction of the Chathiram wing of the Revenue Department of Thanjavur district, was being utilised only for the weekly shandy.

He said that the dearth of space and parking bays at the bus stand in the town, inaugurated on November 22, 1971, caused more inconvenience to the bus passengers.

From just 34 in 1971, the number of buses entering the bus stand daily had now risen to 116, he said.

A councillor, Muralidaran (BJP) pleaded for more funds for the improvement projects for the waterbodies. V.R.S. Subramanian (Independent) sought stern action against those pilfering drinking water through electric motors.

Hameed, another councillor, wanted expeditious completion of a work on laying of road in his ward.

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