4 months ago
2
The ₹45.91-crore Kalaignar Centenary authorities boarding and lodging facility, meant for the household members and relatives of patients visiting assorted authorities hospitals successful Vellore, including the Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, is nearing completion.
Accompanied by Collector V.R. Subbulaxmi, Minister for Highways and Public Works E.V. Velu inspected the enactment connected the caller installation astatine Perumugai colony adjacent the Collector’s bureau connected the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 48) connected Monday. “The caller installation volition supply affordable accommodation for a nominal fee. The enactment volition beryllium completed successful the coming weeks,” S. Lokesh, Assistant Engineer (AE), PWD (Vellore), told The Hindu.
Spread crossed 5 acres of land, the three-storey analyzable would person 119 rooms with astatine slightest 250 beds for visitors, including 48 double-bed rooms, a visitors’ hall, lifts, washrooms, and drinking h2o facilities. The lighting of the installation is solar-powered. Additional facilities specified arsenic a park, CCTV cameras, parking area, and bitumen attack roads person besides been provided.
PWD officials said that currently, astir 250 backstage lodges run wrong the Vellore Corporation limits. Most of them are cramped and poorly lit, with bare minimum facilities. They besides complaint precocious rents.
In contrast, the caller authorities accommodation is located connected the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway with casual entree to the nearest hospitals, including authorities healthcare centres. The caller installation would supply low-cost accommodation for patients from neighbouring districts and States, they added.
