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Thandarampattu becomes 7th Taluk of T’malai dist.

Chengam taluk was bifurcated and Thandarampattu has been added as 7th taluk of Tiruvannamalai district on 26 November 2007. TamilNadu Revenue minister I Periyasamy inaugurated the new taluk in a function held at Thandarampattu. Minister also opened the taluk office in a rental building and assured that there would be no problem in getting allocation for new buildings for the taluk office. “Though it is mandatory to get nod from election commission before creating a new taluk since constituency demarcation excise is underway, it’s only because of the will showed by our CM the new taluk came a reality” Periyasamy said in his address. Minister heaped praise on district administration for being first in the state in terms of number of house site pattas distributed to the occupants. He also released a booklet containing names of 6348 beneficiaries who would get house site patta in the function. He also flagged off ten new buses in completely new routes in the newly created taluk. Food minister EV Velu, who represents the same constituency, read out the message from Chief Minister M Karunanidhi congratulating the new taluk. Velu also said that creation of taluk is an answer to the plight of the people from far flung areas like Vanapuram, Sathakuppam, Beemarapatti in accessing taluk center Chengam. These places are more than 50 km away from Chengam and have no proper transport connectivity. For example people from Beemarapatti would have to walk upto Malayanur Chekkadi and then catch three buses to reach Chenagam, Velu said. District collector Sathyabratha Sahoo in his speech said that creation of the new taluk paved way for opening several taluk level offices at Thandarampattu. District Revenue Officer G Thamarai, MLAs K Pichandi, Sivanandham, Ethiroli Maniyan, SP Jayaraman, PS Vijayakumar were among the participants. First thasildar of the new taluk Kesava Barathi thanked the gathering.