Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami has approved 1,969 schemes since assuming office and a good number of those were aimed at Coimbatore’s development, Municipal Administration Minister S.P. Velumani said here on Sunday.
Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the classes at the newly started Bharathiar University constituent college in Thondamuthur, he said Mr. Palaniswami had announced the ₹250 crore Avinashi-Athikadavu scheme, the ‘Kudimaramathu’ scheme to dredge tanks, sanctioned ₹2,247 to be disbursed directly to farmers as input subsidy, sanction to construct 5,000 houses at ₹1.70 lakh each for fishermen, doubling unemployment assistance youth to benefit over 50,000 persons were some of his achievements.
As far as Coimbatore was concerned, the previous AIADMK government under Jayalalithaa and the present government had sanctioned and was in the process of sanctioning ₹Smart Cities project at ₹1,500 crore, four-lane the stretch of Mettupalayam Road from Saibaba Colony to Mettupalayam at ₹825 crore, elevated expressway from Lakshmi Mills Junction to Chinniyampalayam at ₹900 crore, widening the road from Eachanari to Pollachi to four lanes at ₹500 crore and a bypass road at ₹300 crore. To improve education in the State, the AIADMK government had allocated ₹1.08 lakh crore to School Education Department to improve the quality of education, the Minister said.
The Bharathiar University constituent college in Thondamuthur would offer B.A. English, B.Com., B.Sc. Mathematics, B.Com. (Computer Application), B.Com. (Professional Accounting) and B.B.A. and was open to both boys and girls.
New campus
By next academic year, the college would have a new campus and offer more courses to students, he said.
Collector T.N. Hariharan, M.P. C. Mahendran, MLAs Amman K. Arjunan, A. Shanmugam, Kasturi Vasu, University, Vice-Chancellor A. Ganapathi, Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan and others were present.
