Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday launched the laying of a 31-km-long road in Namakkal district for the benefit of people from the ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in three hamlets. The road is to be laid at a cost of ₹139.65 crore, with assistance from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
About 1,700 of them living in Keezhur, Melur and Kedamalai, within Vennanthur Panchayat Union in the district, “do not have proper road facilities even after 75 years of Independence,” a release said, adding that the people living in these regions had been using unlaid pathways to even get their essentials.
