Tamil Nadu election | Will focus on healthcare and resettlement issues if voted back: Ma Subramanian

Saidapet sitting MLA and wellness curate Ma. Subramanian discusses his roadmap for transforming the constituency into a aesculapian and ecological hub, and besides ensuring section resettlement for residents that volition besides assistance kickstart the Adyar River restoration project. Streamlining Kalaignar Kaappittu Thittam for amended coverage, adjacent signifier of Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam, including crab screening, are besides connected his database of things to do.

Here are the edited excerpts:

Q: You person been the MLA of Saidapet since 2016. What volition beryllium the archetypal issues you volition code if you travel backmost to power?

I person been associated arsenic an elected typical of Saidapet since 1996, erstwhile I was a councillor and Ward Committee chairperson till 2006. Then, till 2011, erstwhile I was elected arsenic Mayor, I was inactive a councillor successful Saidapet. From 2016, I served arsenic the MLA arsenic portion of the absorption enactment for 5 years, and the ruling enactment for different five; and the Health and Family Welfare Minister. When the adjacent authorities begins, initiatives beyond [poll promises] volition beryllium taken up. A infirmary for children volition beryllium inaugurated successful 15 months. We are aiming to marque Saidapet an planetary aesculapian hub. This authorities is mounting up an eco parkland [at 160.86-acre Madras Race Club] successful 25 acres of the [total planned] 118 acres for ₹39 crore. An effort volition beryllium made to alteration the full 118 acre into an eco parkland successful the adjacent tenure.

Q: There are inactive issues related to onshore pattas successful parts of the constituency...

There is immoderate pending enactment successful distributing pattas, arsenic a effect of a reclassification of documents. However, we person started enactment and distributed them to astir fractional the beneficiaries. The enactment volition beryllium completed soon.

We besides person to springiness pattas to those who received the plots arsenic portion of the one-time outgo strategy of the erstwhile Slum Clearance Board [now the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Board]. The contented is the complaint fixed is high. I objected to this successful a Cabinet meeting. In the adjacent tenure, determination is simply a anticipation of the Chief Minister reducing the amount.

For h2o assemblage poramboke area, the authorities is precise strict astir issuing pattas. Still, aft fencing the Adyar River, radical connected the onshore beyond that would get patta.

Q: The Adyar River restoration task was 1 of the large announcements successful the 2024 TN Budget. It is inactive successful the DPR stage. When volition enactment begin?

Right now, desilting the Adyar, cleaning, widening, operation embankments, and making it into a tourer attraction is the plan. The contented is, astir 9,000 houses successful Thideer Nagar, Malligaipoo Nagar, adjacent Sathya Nagar, past Aatruma Nagar, Burma Colony, Ambedkar Nagar volition person to beryllium vacated. Arrangements person been made to conception 1700 houses for them successful Kotturpuram. We volition effort to resettle them wrong the aforesaid locality and past commencement the Adyar River restoration work.

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Q: In Saidapet radical person been complaining that mosquito menace owed to irregular fogging.

As acold arsenic mosquito menace is concerned, the breeding is seasonal. There are circumstantial breeding times erstwhile fogging and spraying volition beryllium done by the section administration. Also, successful my jurisdiction, determination are astir 5 zones. I behaviour meetings and show fogging and spraying regularly.

Of course, nary 1 tin accidental mosquitoes are eliminated 100%. These are river-bed constituencies — Adyar and Cooum stream tally through— truthful determination volition beryllium immoderate beingness of mosquitoes. With much attention, it tin beryllium reduced further.

Q: Can the gait of enactment connected the Teynampet-Saidapet elevated flyover task beryllium speeded up?

The velocity astatine which the flyover enactment is happening is already astatine the fastest imaginable pace. This 3.2 km task costing ₹671 crore is precise challenging. There is the underground Metro Rail web and overhead we are attempting to physique a bridge. We are utilizing the expertise of German architects and builders. As per schedule, it volition beryllium completed by June.

Q: What are the DMK’s prospects this election?

There is nary anti-incumbency factor. The DMK volition triumph with a ample ballot margin.

I person been contesting since 1996 — astir 30 years successful elections. From the acquisition I person got, successful these 30 years, the benignant of surge [for DMK voters] that is present successful Saidapet has ne'er been determination earlier — adjacent erstwhile DMK won by 30,000 votes, oregon successful the parliamentary predetermination erstwhile determination was a 49,000 ballot margin. It is adjacent much than that now.