The state government plans to develop the proposed Marina Business Centre commercial complex on 25 acres at (Pattinapakkam) into a Chennai landmark like the LIC building, constructed in the 1950s, minister for housing and urban development S Muthusamy told the assembly on Wednesday.
He said the proposed building would be modelled on commercial complexes in and a detailed Technical study will be carried out to take forward the project during the current financial year. Entire process of preparing the master plan,” he said. The Chennai metropolitan area would be expanded by adding more areas from Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts and based on a public hearing.
Muthusamy said an integrated township on 770 acres would be established along the ORR linking and Minjur. “We have also studied the factors that affected the development of 143 villages on the outskirts of Chennai and found that lack of road connectivity was the major cause that hindered development. So, we are preparing a grid of roads, covering the villages,” he said.
The proposed commerce hub at Nandanam would be re-examined and taken up if it was feasible, he said. He said 7,032 families residing on the banks of Adyar and Cooum rivers would be relocated in the tenements under construction, which would be completed by June 2022.
Moreover, the department planned to construct 9.5 lakh tenements and individual houses under housing for all programme for the poor before 2030. And, 53,300 units of affordable rental housing would be constructed for migrant workers.
The department would also constitute metropolitan development authorities for, Coimbatore, Tirupur, and Hosur. Of the state’s total geographical area of 1,30,060 sq km, only 8,138 sq km (7%) was covered under the directorate of town and country planning’s master plan till date, he said. The department had taken efforts to increase the coverage of planned area to 29,093 sq km (22%).