Chennai Online News Service - View News: "Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today charged Union Road Transport Minister T R Baalu with imposing Hindi on people of the state by permitting installation of kilometre stones along National Highways with Hindi inscriptions and requested the Prime Minister to instruct the Highways Ministry to stop it.
In a strongly worded statement, she said Baalu, a staunch follower of DMK president M Karunanidhi, who claimed to be the embodiment of Dravidian principles, had allowed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), functioning under him, to install such stones.
In her letter to the Prime Minister, she urged him to take into account the 'extreme sensitivity' of the issue and the views of the state government and instruct that the practice of having inscriptions on kilometre stones only in Tamil and English, be restored immediately. Jayalalithaa said it was with "great pain and anguish" that she wished to bring to the notice of the Prime Minister, the recent practice resorted to by NHAI of inscribing place names in Hindi on kilometre stones on the National Highways being laid in the state.
Of about 3,850 km of National Highways, 1,629 km have been handed over to the NHAI for implementing the National Highways development programme and port connectivity programmes. Out of the 1,629 km, work has been completed on 215 km and is in progress on 340 km. Work on the remaining 1,074 km was yet to be taken up, she said. "
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
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