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TN Minister counters Maran on Chennai infrastructure
Our Bureau
Chennai
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Sept. 12
THE Tamil Nadu Information Technology Minister, Mr D. Jayakumar, has joined issue with the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, who had cautioned that Chennai would go the Bangalore way if infrastructure were not improved.
Mr Jayakumar said that the Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, had highlighted at a meet the steps her Government was taking to improve infrastructure to keep pace with the growth in the IT sector.
The Government, he said, had outlined an Rs 18,000-crore Chennai Metropolitan Development Plan over a 10-year period. In 2005-06, under the plan Rs 2,054.09 crore was being spent and work was in progress, he said.
The work on improving the IT Expressway was in progress and a separate water line to provide 20 million litres a day of water to serve the establishments on the IT Expressway was on the anvil, he said.
At a meeting in Chennai last week, Mr Maran had cautioned the Tamil Nadu Government that Chennai would go the Bangalore way if the State Government did not improve infrastructure at the earliest.
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