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Department of Highways and Minor Ports (Tamil Nadu)

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Formed
  
1811

Headquarters
  
Chennai

Jurisdiction
  
Tamil Nadu

Department of Highways and Minor Ports (Tamil Nadu)

Minister responsible
  
Edappadi K.Palanisamy, Minister for Highways and Minor Ports Department

Agency executive
  
Rajeev Ranjan IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to Government

Parent agency
  
Government of Tamil Nadu

The Department of Highways and Minor Ports of state of Tamil Nadu is one of the Department of Government of Tamil Nadu

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History

  • The Government of Tamil Nadu created a separate Highways Department as early as 1946 as sub department to Public Works Department
  • A separate Highways Department was formed in the Secretariat under the Secretary to Government, Department in 1996 by The Government of Tamil Nadu

    • Vision of the Department

    The vision is the Department is to increase the capacity, connectivity, efficiency and safety of the Highways System so as to enable balanced socioeconomic development of all sections of the people and all regions of the State and to to realize the need to ensure development of Ports and industrial growth of the State by developing all the minor and intermediate ports.

    Objective of the Department

    The basic objective of the Department is to formulate polices, laws, regulations and various programmes based on the needs of the society now and then, for achieving the following goals of the Government in the field of Higher Education in Tamil Nadu:

  • To establish and improve roads, highways and bridges for quality land transport
  • To establish and improve small ports for quality sea transport

    • Present Ministers for Highways and Minor Ports

  • Edappadi K.Palanisamy

    • Former Ministers for Highways and Minor Ports

  • 2006 - 2011
  • Vellakoil Saminathan

    • References

    Department of Highways and Minor Ports (Tamil Nadu) Wikipedia
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