Chief Minister inaugurates college infrastructure worth Rs 185 crore

Accordingly, Palaniswami inaugurated 24 new class rooms, four laboratories, a library and an auditorium at Dr MGR Government Arts and Science College at a cost of Rs 9.22 crore.

Similarly, new class rooms were also unveiled in Government Men’s and Women’s Arts College at Krishnagiri district at a cost of Rs 2.27 crore.

Likewise, additional classrooms and other student’s facilities were also opened at various government colleges in Villupuram, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Erode, Coimbatore, Dindigul, Madurai, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram, Tirupur, Tiruvarur, Cuddalore, Tiruchy and Karur at a cost of more than Rs 100 crore.

In Chennai, the Directorate of Collegiate Education, which is situated in Saidapet, also got a facelift by getting additional classrooms and new Science laboratories, which costed the exchequer to the tune of Rs 2.18 crore.

In addition, the Chief Minister also opened hostel facilities at Presidency College in Chepauk at a cost of Rs 10 crore. Accordingly, the men’s hotel will have 90 rooms, which could accommodate 360 students.

Likewise, Bharathi Arts College for Women at George Town also got 45 additional classrooms at a cost of Rs 9 crore.

A government release also pointed out that during the last eight years the state government has established 56 arts and science colleges, four government engineering colleges and 19 industrial technical institutes. The total student’s admission percentage has reached 48.6 per cent, which is highest in the country.

All the welfare measures were unveiled through video conferencing from the Secretariat.

The Chief Minister also inaugurated a new building for child and lactating mothers named Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and New-born Care (CEmONC), at Cuddalore GH.

Palaniswami said, “Government with the intention to provide quality health care to people had been constantly upgrading infrastructure facilities in the government hospitals and as part of it, the state had constructed a CEmONC block at the cost of Rs 18 crore”.

He also inaugurated a new ward for men and women with 58 beds, constructed at the cost of Rs 1.3 crore in Kinathukadavu GH in Coimbatore district, a new ward with 54 bed facility constructed at the cost of Rs 1.21 crore in Vembakkam in Tiruvannamalai district. The total cost of inaugurated buildings attached to Health Department is Rs 30.03 crore.

Palaniswami also inaugurated a fishing harbour constructed at the cost of Rs 97.4 crore, fish jetty constructed at the cost of Rs 10.5 crore in Vembar in Thoothukudi district, a renovated fishing harbour at the cost of Rs 60 crore in Mallipattinam village, in Thanjavur district, fishing jetty constructed in Kovalam, in Kancheepuram district, at the cost of Rs 5 crore.