more-inSeeking to give a push to the Smart City projects and sanitation initiatives during the monsoon season in the city, State Ministers Vellamandi N. Natarajan and S. Valarmathi conducted a review of the works with civic officials here on Monday. The meeting, lasting nearly two hours, focussed on the pace of the development works sanctioned under the Smart City project, extension of the underground drainage network to omitted areas and sanitation works. Corporation officials led by N. Ravichandran, Special Officer-cum-Commissioner, made a presentation on ongoing development projects and explained the salient features. “We discussed the time line for the works being taken up with the funds sanctioned by the government under the Smart City Project,” he said. The Ministers instructed the officials to expedite the extension of the underground drainage scheme to omitted areas and ensure that sewerage from households was not let out into open drains.

Source: The Hindu October 16, 2018 03:01 UTC