Plan to name flyover, bridge after freedom fighter VOC;  govt announces 16 projects as part of his 150th birth anniversary

NE NEWS SERVICE
COIMBATORE, SEPT 5

The Tamil Nadu government would consider naming a flyover and an under-construction bridge here after freedom fighter V O Chidambaram Pillai, popularly known as VOC and called ‘Kappalotia Thamizhar’.

Food Minister of the State R Sakkarapani said this to reporters on Sunday after garlanding VOC’s portrait.

The Minister said there was a demand from the people to name bridges and a road after the freedom fighter whose 150th birth anniversary was being celebrated.

The government has announced 16 projects as part of the celebrations, he said. The Minister inaugurated a mobile exhibition of photographs of the freedom fighter.