Department of Highways and Minor Ports (Tamil Nadu)

Department of Highways and Minor Ports of State of Tamil Nadu
Agency overview
Formed	1811
Jurisdiction	Tamil Nadu
Headquarters	Chennai
Minister responsible	Edappadi K. Palaniswami, Chief Minister, Minister for Highways and Minor Ports Department;
Agency executive	Rajeev Ranjan IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to Government;
Parent agency	Government of Tamil Nadu
Website	Highways and Minor Ports Department

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

History

The Government of Tamil Nadu created a separate Highways Department as early as 1946 as sub department to Public Works Department [1]
A separate Highways Department was formed in the Secretariat under the Secretary to Government, Department in 1996 by The Government of Tamil Nadu

Vision

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 realize the need to ensure development of Ports and industrial growth of the State by developing all the minor and intermediate ports.

Objective

The basic objective of the Department is to formulate policies, 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

Undertakings and bodies

Name	Website
Tamil Nadu Highways Department	http://www.tnhighways.gov.in
Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project	http://www.tnrsp.gov.in
Tamil Nadu Maritime Board	http://www.tnmaritime.com/
Tamil Nadu Road Development Company Ltd.	http://www.tnrdc.com
Tamil Nadu Road Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited
Tamil Nadu State Construction Corporation Limited	Closed now
Poompuhar Shipping Corporation Limited	http://www.tamilship.com/

[2]

Present Ministers for Highways and Minor Ports

Edappadi K.Palanisamy

Former Ministers for Highways and Minor Ports

2006–2011 Vellakoil Saminathan

References

"departments created" (PDF). www.tn.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
"Organisations under the Highways and Minor Ports Department" (PDF). www.tn.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012.

External links

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[1] "departments created" (PDF). www.tn.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012.

[2] "Organisations under the Highways and Minor Ports Department" (PDF). www.tn.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012.