Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Buildings demolished for subway project

Photo: V. Ganesan

Making way: Buildings being razed down as part of land acquisition process for the vehicular subway proposed in Korukkupet. —

Chennai: Several buildings on Thyagappa Street in Korukkupet were demolished on Monday and Tuesday, as part of the land acquisition for a vehicular subway proposed in the locality.

The High Court recently dismissed petitions seeking to quash a government notification for acquiring the petitioners’ lands for a subway near the Korukkupet railway level-crossing. The subway project is to be taken up by the Corporation and Southern Railway. The Corporation had initially envisaged the subway project to be a package of seven bridges planned in different parts of the city.

As the project required heavy land acquisition, it was decided to take it up as a separate one.

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