A hi-tech slip-form paver machine will be used to accelerate the on-going relaying work of the one-kilometre Mada Street near the famous Arunachaleswarar temple in Tiruvannamalai with cement concrete ahead of the Karthigai Deepam festival, which is scheduled between November 14 - 30.
Accompanied by Collector B. Murugesh, Minister for Public Works, Highways, and Minor Ports E.V. Velu oversaw the functioning of the equipment in laying the stretch of concrete. The relaying work, which costs ₹15 crore, will provide much-needed relief for devotees, who are having to walk on the existing pothole-ridden stretch to reach the temple. “We have roped in an Indore-based firm to do the job for us. The work will be completed in a month,” K. Raghuraman, Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE), State Highways (Tiruvannamalai), told The Hindu.
In the first phase of the work, the stretch between the Gandhi statue and Pei Gopuram on the western side of the temple, a distance of one km, will be paved. Subsequently, the relaying work using the equipment will be extended to another km.
