periyar shopping complex

Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday inaugurated Madurai’s new Periyar bus stand and the shopping complex attached to it. Stalin inaugurated the bus stand and the shopping complex via videoconferencing.

In an effort to make Madurai a clean city, the corporation has come down hard on shop keepers in and around Periyar bus stand and complex bus stand.

Margins of the road and streets are meant for the common use for the pedestrians, but some officers give permissions to put up shops on these margins, leaving the general public to walk on the roads, which causes inconvenience to the pedestrians as well as commuters and lead to tragic accidents, the Madras high court observed on Thursday.

Additional chief secretary, municipal administration and water supply, Shivdas Meena, and municipal commissioner P Ponniah took stock of developmental works carried out under smart city project in Madurai city on Saturday. Underground drainage works to the tune of ` 291.