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The Velachery-Tambaram High Road volition soon beryllium renamed aft Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was martyred during a counter-terrorism cognition portion connected deputation to the 4th Battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles successful Jammu and Kashmir successful April 2014.
He, successful August 2014, was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award.
“The connection to rename the roadworthy has been nether information for a agelong time. We placed it earlier the Corporation Council and forwarded it to the government,” a elder authoritative from the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation said. The authoritative added that the sanction alteration is expected to instrumentality effect implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.
Major Varadarajan spent his aboriginal years successful the locality, and the roadworthy is being renamed to honour his sacrifice and commemorate his relation with the area. His communicative reached a wider assemblage done the Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Tamil film Amaran that was released successful October 2024.
