Lt. Governor sanctions ₹13 crore for conduct of Assembly elections
The HinduGovernor Kiran Bedi has sanctioned ₹13 crore towards various expenditure for the conduct of the Assembly elections in the Union Territory in a couple of months. Expenditure sanction to the tune of ₹14.16 lakh was also accorded towards procurement of power packs and paper thermal for the conduct of the elections from a Bengaluru-based company. A sum of ₹40 crore has been approved as grant-in-aid to the Health Department and associated institutions for disbursal of third quarter salaries, ₹51 lakh as grant-in-aid for the salaries of the District Rural Development Agency staff and ₹61.94 lakh for the payment of salaries to staff of the Pondicherry Society for the Care of the Aged. Suburayam GPS and the government girls higher secondary school as Venkata Subba Reddiar GGHSS, while the government girls higher secondary school in Kadirgamam has been named after Kavi V. Narayanasamy.