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Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) inaugurated a slew of civic infrastructure projects, including a mini stadium completed nether the Smart City Project.
Mr. Rai besides launched compact substation facilities, the laying of 11-KV precocious hostility underground cabling and related works, and opened 220 multi-storey apartments built for the economically weaker sections successful Chinnayapuram.
Lt. Governor K. Kailashnathan, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, Speaker R. Selvam, Home Minister A. Namassivayam, Public Works Minister K. Lakshminarayanan, Rajya Sabha Member S. Selvaganabathy, and MLAs G. Nehru, Annibal Kennedy, and R. Baskar participated.
Also contiguous were Government Secretaries P. Jawahar, A. Muthamma, D. Manikandan, and R. Kesavan, Collector A. Kulothungan, PWD Chief Engineer K. Veeraselvam, Pondicherry Municipality Commissioner M. Kandasamy, and A. Sureshraj, Oulgaret Municipality Commissioner.
A property enactment said that arsenic portion of the ₹17-crore refurbishment of the Anna Thidal mini stadium, lasting connected a 9,600 sq m area, the installation had been provided a due playground for schoolchildren from adjacent institutions/neighbourhoods and the wide public, a assemblage for 4,500 viewers connected the eastbound and occidental broadside of the ground, and a two-sided assemblage for 500 viewers, with a signifier successful the mediate connected the confederate broadside of the ground.
It is besides equipped with a parking abstraction for 1,500 two-wheelers, an office, dormitory, multi-purpose hall, toilets, and h2o supply, drainage, and electrical facilities.
Another task commissioned related to the replacement of 26 lipid benignant organisation transformers with maintenance-free compact sub-stations consisting of dry-type organisation transformer with SCADA controllable ringing main unit. In summation to this, 19 km of overhead enactment were replaced by 11-KV HT cablegram with associated instrumentality successful the coastal portion of the Union Territory. The task was executed astatine a outgo of ₹28.20 crore.
At Chinnayapuram, the dilapidated tenements were demolished and 220 caller units built successful six blocks nether the lodging strategy for the economically weaker conception radical by the Slum Clearance Board and the Adi Dravidar and Scheduled Tribes Welfare Department. Undertaken nether the Smart City Mission, the units person been equipped with facilities specified arsenic attack roads, h2o supply, drainage, sewage connection, and elevators.
Later, Mr. Rai chaired a gathering to reappraisal the advancement of the implementation of the Central government’s flagship schemes and the caller transgression laws. The Lt. Governor, Chief Minister, Ministers, authorities secretaries, and apical officials of the Police Department, including Shalini Singh, Director-General of Police, participated.
