Hall soon for Anna Nagar

Here comes good news for Anna Nagar residents who have expressed

and persistently advocated for a multi-purpose hall at Anna

Nagar. On 2 August, Chennai Mayor M Subramanian along with a team

of officials visited Anna Nagar and identified a suitable

location for the hall and ordered the officials to speed up the

process to set it up.
Confirming the spot identified for this project, Assistant

Commissioner of Zone-V M Krishnamurthy told this reporter that

'a vacant plot of around 90 grounds in A Block, located near the

local MLA office and Crescent Park, has been identified as the

place for constructing the multipurpose hall'.
According to sources in the Corporation, the Mayor had ordered

his officials to complete the 'survey and layout' works within a

month.
It may be noted that the need for such hall at Anna Nagar, the

one like P T Thiyagaraya Hall at T Nagar, has been felt for quite

sometime now.
A few months ago, for the first time the issue over the hall was

brought to the notice of the local MLA and State Electricity

Minister by a resident while the Minister was speaking at a

function in Valliammal College for Women. It was at that time,

the Minister had assured to the gathering that the issue would be

taken up with the Chief Minister soon.
Meanwhile, the same issue was again highlighted by the residents

during a face-to-face meeting organised by the Exnora Club of

Anna Nagar a month ago. During that meeting, the Mayor, in

another programme a week after Arcot N Veerasamy's, gave further

assurances to the residents on the hall.
So, going by indications, the dream of Anna Nagarites of having

an auditorium like P T Thiyagaraya Hall at Anna Nagar would no

longer be a dream, but a reality.
-G Saravanan