Funds allotted for tasks like PMGSY are primarily utilised by North Indian States: MP Su. Venkatesan

Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan in the course of the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) demanded that the Union authorities schemes like Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) ought to be restructured to permit the funds allotted for the scheme for remodelling current roads in developed States like Tamil Nadu.

Speaking on the assembly held right here on Friday, he identified that in locations like Madurai district there was no want for brand new roads and the scheme has no worth.

“The Union Government allocates 1000’s of crores for the development of recent roads in villages. However, such villages are only a few in Tamil Nadu. There will not be even one such village in Madurai District. Therefore, the entire advantages of this scheme are primarily utilised by North Indian States like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan. The situations of the scheme forestall Southern States and developed States like Tamil Nadu from utilising its advantages,” he famous.

Speaking on different improvement tasks and wish for additional improvement, he mentioned, the Government Rajaji Hospital was overcrowded.

“We are actively attempting to implement the choice to utilise the location of the previous Ramanathapuram District Collectorate for public well being function to offer addition area for the GRH,” he added.

“The folks in Madurai are going through extreme site visitors congestion and hardship as a result of ongoing flyover building works. Hence, now we have urged the authorities to speed up the flyover works,” he mentioned.

He added that they’ve additionally urged the authorities to take away the soil on the Tirupparakankundram South aspect which was dumped in the course of the building of the bridge.

As farmers identified that there was a delay in distributing agricultural seeds, Mr. Venkatesan mentioned that they’ve settled the difficulty and guaranteed that the seeds could be distributed in a well timed method earlier than the beginning of the monsoon.

He knowledgeable in the course of the assembly that the district administration had acceded to their request to shift the Madurai department of the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), an Union authorities enterprise that gives gear for the otherwise abled, performing at Villapuram to the Collectorate premises.

Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration P. Moorthy, District Collector Ok. J. Praveen Kumar, Virudhunagar MP Manickam Tagore, Theni MP Thanga Tamilselvan, amongst others had been current in the course of the assembly.