A new building for the Srirangam Revenue Divisional Office was declared open by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday through video conference from Chennai.
The office, located at Navalurkuttapattu, has been built at a cost of Rs.1.80 crore. A residential quarter for the Revenue Divisional Officer has also been constructed at a cost of Rs.35 lakh. The new revenue division, with Srirangam as its headquarters, was created in 2013.
Srirangam is the fourth revenue division in the district after Tiruchi, Lalgudi, and Musiri.
The new division has Srirangam, Manapparai and Marungapuri taluks and the Andhanallur, Manikandam, Manapparai, Marungapuri and Vaiyampatti unions under its jurisdiction. Along with the new revenue division, the government had bifurcated the Tiruchi and Manapparai taluks in the district, taking the number of taluks in the district from 9 to 11.
While Tiruchi was bifurcated into Tiruchi East and Tiruchi West taluks, Manapparai was bifurcated into Manapparai and Marungapuri taluks.
The Revenue Divisional Office was temporarily located at Cholan Nagar on the outskirts of the city on the Tiruchi-Dindigul National Highway. The Revenue Divisional Office would function from the new building from Wednesday, official sources said.
