Funds allocated for projects like PMGSY are primarily utilised by North Indian States: MP Su. Venkatesan

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MP Su. Venkatesan chairing the DISHA gathering  successful  Madurai connected  Friday.

MP Su. Venkatesan chairing the DISHA gathering successful Madurai connected Friday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan during the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) demanded that the Union authorities schemes similar Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) should beryllium restructured to let the funds allocated for the strategy for remodelling existing roads successful developed States similar Tamil Nadu.

Speaking astatine the gathering held present connected Friday, helium pointed retired that successful places similar Madurai territory determination was nary request for caller roads and the strategy has nary value.

“The Union Government allocates thousands of crores for the operation of caller roads successful villages. However, specified villages are precise fewer successful Tamil Nadu. There is not adjacent 1 specified colony successful Madurai District. Therefore, the implicit benefits of this strategy are chiefly utilised by North Indian States similar Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan. The conditions of the strategy forestall Southern States and developed States similar Tamil Nadu from utilising its benefits,” helium noted.

Speaking connected different improvement projects and request for further development, helium said, the Government Rajaji Hospital was overcrowded.

“We are actively trying to instrumentality the determination to utilise the tract of the erstwhile Ramanathapuram District Collectorate for nationalist wellness intent to supply summation abstraction for the GRH,” helium added.

“The radical successful Madurai are facing terrible postulation congestion and hardship owed to the ongoing flyover operation works. Hence, we person urged the authorities to accelerate the flyover works,” helium said.

He added that they person besides urged the authorities to region the ungraded connected the Tirupparakankundram South broadside which was dumped during the operation of the bridge.

As farmers pointed retired that determination was a hold successful distributing cultivation seeds, Mr. Venkatesan said that they person settled the contented and assured that the seeds would beryllium distributed successful a timely mode earlier the commencement of the monsoon.

He informed during the gathering that the territory medication had acceded to their petition to displacement the Madurai subdivision of the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), an Union authorities endeavor that provides instrumentality for the otherwise abled, functioning astatine Villapuram to the Collectorate premises.

Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration P. Moorthy, District Collector K. J. Praveen Kumar, Virudhunagar MP Manickam Tagore, Theni MP Thanga Tamilselvan, among others were contiguous during the meeting.

Published - September 26, 2025 11:39 p.m. IST

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