Save Anna Centenary Library - Please sign the online petition‏

[KrishnasamyG]

Dear All,

Please sign the online petition following the link and spread the news!
http://www.change.org/petitions/chief-minister-of-tamil-nadu-miss-j...

Please sign this Online Petition requesting not to convert the Anna Centenary Library into an Hospital. Ever since JJ came to power she has been undoing all good things that were done by KK. We may not support KK Politically but a Library is a place where we as human beings can impart and develop our knowledge. We were silent when she converted the new assembly building into an hospital... we were silent when she changed the uniform education system... We were silent when she announced converting Metro rail to Mono Rail... But this has reached to heights of JJ's paranoia.

whatever vengeance she has towards KK is to be dealt with Politically & by not changing everything that were done during his rule. This time we will not keep silent! We will not support her into this atrocity of converting the Library. If a Multi-Specialty Children's hospital is needed 'SO BE IT'! There are empty lands in & around chennai where it could be built.

Moreover Being an Architect I can vouch, it is stupidity to convert a library building into Hospital. Both are entirely different buildings which need different thought process in designing. The infrastructure & facilities for an hospital can never be introduced suddenly into an Existing Library Building. This process will put in more efforts, energy & money than building a new one.

Being an academician, a voracious reader & books enthusiast I can never fathom how a human being can ever think of doing such stupid act! 'Only Amma fossible'! Lets raise to the occasion and spread this online campaign of saving a world class library! rightfully for our children's future!

thanks & regards,
P.Saravana Kumar

[Pawan Agrawal]

Madras High Court stays plan to turn library into hospital

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Friday stayed the Tamil Nadu government's controversial proposal to shift the recently-constructed Anna Centenary Library to DPI campus in Nungambakkam. A bench of Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice TS Sivagnanam granted stay after three PILs were filed questioning the decision . It also directed the government to file a counter affidavit in six weeks. 

The petition was filed by advocate P Pugalenthi, who claimed the November 1 decision of the state cabinet to shift the library would be "arbitrary, unfair and unreasonable." Chief minister Jayalalithaa had on Wednesday announced that the library, set up by the previous M Karunanidhi government for Rs 230 crore, would be converted into a children's specialty hospital. 

Justifying her decision on shifting the library, she had said her government, by initiating the effort, has put the state in the forefront of child care. The PILs said it was a political move that would affect the children's right to education . Chief Justice Eqbal, who had only last month attended a function at the library, observed on Friday that it was indeed a beautiful building. 

If the government wants to build a new hospital, it can do it elsewhere, he said. Writers, including Sa Kandasamy, Indira Parthasarathy, Nanjil Nadan, Prabanchan and Manushya Puthiran among others, some of them Sahitya Akademi Award recipients , expressed "shock" and said the library should be allowed to continue at the Kotturpuram site itself, earlier selected by Jayalalithaa to construct a new Assembly complex during her 2001-06 regime. 

Soon after coming to power in May, Jayalalithaa had announced the conversion of the under-construction secretariat premises into a super-speciality hospital and shifted the secretariat back to the centuries-old Fort St George. The Jayalalithaa government had also stopped the DMK's flagship programme of supplying free colour TVs, and recast an insurance scheme named after Karunanidhi.

 

Source of Information: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com

[KrishnasamyG]

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[Tara Singh Danu]

http://www.change.org/petitions/chief-minister-of-tamil-nadu-miss-j...

all member should sign up on this url.

 

[KrishnasamyG]

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