Concern over delay in completing bus stand work

Officials had initially said that the project was on fast track and would be completed in January 2021

The undue delay in completion of the remodelling of Chathiram Bus Stand has raised concern among the motorists and the passengers.

The project, which is being executed at a cost of ₹ 17.34 crore, is aimed at building an organised bus bays and other infrastructure at the Chathiram Bus Stand, which had been in use for more than 40 years without any standard infrastructure. Provision of 30 bus bus bays -15 of them in the ground floor and another 15 in the first floor, waiting hall for the passengers, leisure room for the bus crew, cloak room, mother feeding room, shops in ground floor and the first floor, food court, men and women toilets and facility to park 350 two wheelers were among the components of the project.

The Tiruchi Corporation had to face litigations from some quarters before launching the construction work in 2019.