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Roads at Melpet to be re-laid

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Rs. 24 lakh initially sanctioned for relaying a 2-km stretch

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GRIEVANCES REDERSSAL: Tiruvannamalai Collector M.Rajendran presenting community certificates at Melpet on Tuesday.

MELPET (JAWADU HILLS): The Tiruvannamalai district administration will take steps to re-lay the 22-km stretch of battered road at Melpet on the Jawadu Hills through the Forest Department, District Collector M. Rajendran, said here on Tuesday.

Participating in a mass contact programme here, he said Rs. 24 lakh had been initially sanctioned for relaying a 2-km stretch of the battered road. Relaying of the entire stretch could be done only in a phased manner, through the Forest Department. The Highways Department had given a rough estimate of Rs. 6.25 crore for relaying the entire stretch of the road.

Mr. Rajendran said the district administration would try its best to relay the road from Paramandal to Melpet within a year. The stretch of road from Paramandal to Melpet was in a poor state owing to lack of maintenance by the Forest Department. The priority of the district administration would be to relaying this stretch of road as this was the shortest route from Chengam to Melpet.

The district administration had sanctioned Rs.10 lakh for other development works in Melpet, Mr. Rajendran said. Laying of new roads continued to be an issue as Melpet was amidst the reserve forest area and lay under the control of the Forest Department.

Besides utilising funds of the administration, the damaged road could also be re-laid through the ‘Namakku Naame Thittam,’ Mr. Rajendrtan said. Residents of Melpet should seriously consider this option. The district administration had also sent its recommendation to the Centre for laying new roads in Melpet, he said. Issuing community certificates to the hill tribe was the next important task of the administration, Mr. Rajendran said. Later, he received petitions from residents of Melpet. Old age pension, house pattas, community certificates and ration cards were distributed to 86 beneficiaries.

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