Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that he will take up the promised sanction for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) for Palakkad during his two-day visit to New Delhi starting from Sunday.
He was inaugurating an award giving ceremony for SSLC and Plus Two students who scored high marks in the last examinations in the district on Saturday.
Mr. Chandy said he would meet the Prime Minister and the Union Ministers in Delhi to discuss various pending projects of the State.
Later, he told mediapersons that he would take up the issue of stockpiling of food grains in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India in the State. On the objections raised by Tamil Nadu to the taking up of the Attappady Valley Irrigation Project started in 1980s, the Chief Minister said that the government would look into the matter in detail.
On the allegations that Congress leader K. Sudhakaran, MP, had conspired to kill CPI (M) leader E.P. Jayarajan, he said he was yet to get the details of the issue.
Mr. Chandy said the medical college sanctioned by the government for Palakkad would become a reality soon. Earlier, the Chief Minister inaugurated another award ceremony for students organised by Thrithala MLA V.T. Balram at Kootanad.
Later, he inaugurated the M.E.S. Vanitha College at Pattambi.
