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Temple town gets set for mega science meet
With only three weeks left for the prestigious 104th Indian Science Congress (ISC) meeting here, the works taken up for the improvement of facilities and beautification of the city are going on at a brisk pace.
Tirupati: With only three weeks left for the prestigious 104th Indian Science Congress (ISC) meeting here, the works taken up for the improvement of facilities and beautification of the city are going on at a brisk pace.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the five-day conference in which a host of dignitaries, including Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and others also will participate in the inaugural function of ISC onJanuary
Highlights:
- Development and beautification works in full swing for the 104th Indian Science Congress scheduled to begin on Jan 3
- Chief Minister is likely to visit Tirupati city in the 3rd week of this month to inspect the progress of works
- Renigunta airport area, Science Congress venue SV University, hostels of SVU, TTD-run colleges are being spruced up for the event
3. After the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) decided to hold its annual congress at Sri Venkateswara University (SVU) here, the State government has taken up works to improve facilities and also deck up the city to enhance the image of the famous pilgrim city and the State.
The beautification and development works cover Renigunta airport area, the two arterial roads from airport to SVU where the conference will be held, select roads in the city, all the hostels of SVU and TTD-run colleges, Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam (SPMVV) and, of course, the sprawling SVU complex, venue of the international science congress.
A visit to these areas on Wednesday revealed that the works are going briskly everywhere, including Karakambadi road where the construction of road divider and its beautification is going on while on SVU campus, the workers were seen engaged in landscaping and plantation at several places in the sprawling campus as well as refurbishing the hostels.
As part of the road widening and development, the municipal corporation authorities have also removed the encroachments in Mangalam area on Tirupati-Karakambadi road.
Many government agencies, including Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT), Tirupati Urban Development Authority (Tuda), National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), Roads and Buildings (R&B) and Panchayat Raj (PR) departments were involved in the works.
Authorities were virtually on their toes to complete the works two weeks before the commencement of the international level science meet for which more than 13,000 delegates including from abroad, would be participating.
As Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is likely to visit the city in the third week of December to inspect the arrangements, the authorities were spending sleepless nights as in many areas the works were moving slowly including in SV University where the reconstruction and improvement facilities in the hostels where delegates to the meet would be put up and other works yet to take full shape.
According to municipal corporation officials, the beautification works of the airport area were almost completed while the road development works and construction of dividers as well as the beautification would be over in a week or 10 days.
The university authorities also exuded confidence on completing the works on a war footing basis, making the university ready for the meet well ahead of the conference.
