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Karunanidhi opens new forensic sciences building

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Chief Minister also lays stone for additional building for DGP office

— Photo: V. Ganesan

PRESSING THE BUTTON: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi inaugurating the forensic sciences building and laying the foundation stone for the additional building for the DGP’s office in Chennai on Wednesday. DGP K.P. Jain and S. P. Mathur, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation (right), are in the picture.

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for an additional building for the office of the Director General of Police. The three-storey structure will come up at a cost of Rs.26.4 crore and will take about a year and a half to build.

Earlier, Mr. Karunanidhi inaugurated the new Forensic Sciences Building, constructed at a cost of Rs.6.81 crore.

Speaking after laying the foundation stone, Mr. Karunanidhi said he was instrumental in preserving the Raj-era building. He had given an assurance in the Assembly after the DMK came to power in 1989 that the DGP’s office would not be demolished. In 1996, the DMK government sanctioned Rs.1.35 crore for renovating it. The Chief Minister stressed that the DMK government was keen on protecting structures that were of historical or aesthetic value. It had acted in a swift manner to take over 320 grounds of land belonging to the Horticulture Department that was in the possession of an individual. Examples of this kind were in abundance.

Mr. Karunanidhi said people who always found fault with the government had forgotten to praise it at least for getting billboards off the Chennai roads. They were a traffic hazard and practically hid a large part of the city. The government had taken great pains to get the stay orders vacated. Speaking of the development plans for Chennai, he said a new Assembly complex was coming up; so was Metrorail.

The Adyar area would get a facelift once the Rs.100-crore Adyar park work was completed and more bridges and flyovers were in the pipeline to reduce congestion.

The Centre had given its approval for the expansion of the Chennai airport, he said and asserted that the project would not be hindered any more.

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