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The State Highways Department said that erstwhile Chief Minister and DMK stalwart C.N. Annadurai’s statue adjacent Arunachaleswara temple successful Tiruvannamalai municipality volition beryllium reinstated astatine its archetypal spot after the completion of storm h2o drain widening enactment connected the stretch.
Officials said that the existing constrictive drains connected Anna Salai, betwixt Tiruvannamalai Taluk bureau and the temple, a region of astir 600 metres, were built during the 1970s.
Drain work
The drain enactment is being carried retired by the Highways Department astatine a outgo of ₹3 crore.
Old drains connected the agelong person been demolished to conception caller wide drains. “The New drains volition assistance to discharge excess rainwater from Arunachala Hills during monsoon. It volition assistance to forestall inundation of the temple town. The full enactment volition beryllium completed earlier the Karthigai Deepam festival (December 4),” S. Anbarasu, Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), State Highways, told The Hindu.
It comes aft the AIADMK cadre noted the abrupt disappearance of a bronze statue and plaque connected September 25. Subsequently, AIADMK enactment functionaries lodged a ailment with section police. AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami besides announced a protestation successful Tiruvannamalai municipality on Friday against the missing DMK person statue.
Highway officials said the statue was relocated safely to the section PWD bureau aft the ceramic pedestal and alloy mesh astir the statue were damaged. As the caller drain enactment could further harm the dilapidated structure, the statue and plaque were shifted. The statue volition beryllium reinstated successful a grandeur mode erstwhile the drain enactment is done.
Highway officials said that caller drains connected cardinal stretches successful the municipality are done by them whereas Corporation undertakes caller drains, mostly successful streets.
As per plan, the caller widened drain volition beryllium 8 feet wide and 5 feet successful extent to discharge excess rainwater.
The agelong (Anna Salai) volition besides beryllium widened from its existing 7 metres width to 10.5 metres. Two 110 KV transformers and astatine slightest 10 electrical poles volition beryllium relocated.
Around 20 shops connected the agelong volition beryllium razed arsenic portion of the work.
Meanwhile, on with functionaries and enactment cadre, erstwhile AIADMK Ministers P. Valarmathi and ‘Agri’ S.S. Krishnamurthy held a objection adjacent the statue, demanding contiguous reinstatement of it.
