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Lieutenant Governor K. Kailashnathan and Chief Minister N. Rangasamy connected Monday jointly inaugurated the renovated dhobikhanas and a modern hygienic food marketplace constructed by the Puducherry Municipality nether the Union Government’s Cities Investments to Innovate Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS) Challenge programme.
The civic assemblage has developed the dhobikhanas astatine Marapalam successful Mudaliarpet and Ramalinga Nagar successful Vaithikuppam astatine a outgo of astir ₹3. 82 crore and ₹1. 86 crore respectively with allocation nether the CITIIS programme. The outgo for the operation of the marketplace astatine Nethaji Nagar successful Uppalam was astir ₹1. 93 crore, an authoritative said.
Lt. Governor K. Kailashnathan with Chief Minister N. Rangasamy astatine the lawsuit astatine Marapalam successful Puducherry connected Monday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The renovation of dhobikhanas was 1 of the long-pending demands of laundry workers, the authoritative said, adding that the dhobikhana astatine Marapalam has been provided with 20 quarters for radical to stay. The different dhobikhana astatine Ramalinga Nagar has been equipped with facilities to store formal materials, the authoritative said.
The Municipality has besides made operational the LPG crematorium, constructed nether the CITIIS project, astatine Sanyasithottam. The facility, constructed astatine a outgo of astir ₹3.3 crore, was made acceptable for nationalist usage a fewer days ago, helium said.
CITIIS Challenge was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs arsenic a constituent of the Smart City task successful 2018. Puducherry was 1 among the fewer regions selected by the Ministry to instrumentality sustainable municipality infrastructure projects successful low-income settlements successful the country.
Speaker R. Selvam, Minister for Public Works K. Lakshminarayanan, MLA Annibal Kennedy, Chief Secretary Sharat Chauhan and different officials participated successful the event.
