Chennai Corporation Commissioner orders officials to expedite work on new council hall

Chennai Corporation Commissioner G.S. Sameeran connected Saturday ordered officials to expedite enactment connected the caller assembly hallway for accommodating further councillors aft delimitation of Corporation wards.

Currently, the 426 sq km of the Chennai Corporation has been divided into 200 wards. As the abstraction successful the assembly hallway successful Ripon Buildings is inadequate, enactment connected a caller assembly hallway was taken up astatine an estimated outgo of Rs.74.7 crore connected the premises of Ripon Buildings adjacent Victoria Public Hall. The caller assembly hallway volition person capable seats to accommodate caller councillors aft the delimitation of wards.

The commissioner besides inspected the caller canteen connected the premises of Ripon Buildings and ordered officials to amended services. The canteen has an introduction astatine the Periamet, Sydenhams Road for section residents portion corp employees volition sojourn the canteen from different gross from Ripon Buildings. The commissioner besides ordered officials to amended the facilities astatine the canteen.

Mr. Sameeran besides inspected the gymnasium and parking batch connected the premises of Ripon Buildings and ordered officials to amended attraction of the facilities.

Mr. Sameeran said: “In the caller assembly hallway project, 133 retired of 235 piles person been completed. Before the monsoon, we are readying to implicit basement level. By September 2027, we volition implicit the project.”