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Tiruchi Corporation has planned to instal caller thoroughfare sanction boards connected 1,866 streets crossed the metropolis arsenic portion of an inaugural to amended nationalist signage and region caste-based oregon communal thoroughfare names.
The determination comes aft residents and activists requested the Corporation to region references to caste identities successful thoroughfare names specified arsenic Kura Theru, Keezha Sarayapattarai Theru, Viswappa Naicken Pettai etc.
According to officials, the replacement of damaged oregon missing boards volition beryllium taken up successful phases, with precedence fixed to areas wherever the existing boards are defaced. Incidents of advertisers pasting posters connected the boards person been reported, often damaging them during removal.
The civic assemblage has sanctioned ₹1 crore for upgrading existing signage and installing caller sanction boards successful a phased manner. The works volition screen 1,866 streets - 226 successful Zone 1, 188 successful Zone 2, 257 successful Zone 3, 604 successful Zone 4, and 591 successful Zone 5.
Councillors and officials successful each 5 zones person been directed to hole a database of streets with caste oregon communal names to beryllium sent to the Municipal Administration Department for approval. During caller country sabha meetings, residents were urged to suggest alternate names for the streets.
“Around 60 streets volition beryllium renamed successful the archetypal phase. Once approved, the identified streets volition beryllium officially renamed and caller signboards volition beryllium installed,” said a elder Corporation official.
It is estimated that implicit 20 streets successful each portion presently carnivore caste-based names. Names of governmental leaders, state fighters, and salient personalities from the State are being considered arsenic replacements.
Recently, Thirunagar 3rd Main Road successful Karumandapam was renamed aft precocious Tamil writer Nandalala, and Thangaiyan Street successful Srirangam was renamed successful honour of Nadaswaram subordinate Sheik Chinna Moulana.
