Shops for Rent in Ram Nagar, Meyyanur, Salem

In its state budget, the Tamil Nadu government has proposed the construction of one lakh concrete houses, at an estimated cost of Rs 1,700 crores, to replace huts damaged by cyclone Gaja in 2018

Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami has denied charges that the Salem-Chennai expressway project was meant to benefit private miners and termed it someone's 'figment of imagination'

Opposition to the Rs 10,000-crore Salem-Chennai Expressway has increased, with a plea being filed in the Madras HC, seeking to declare the entire land acquisition process as null and void

The CPI has opposed the Tamil Nadu government's proposed Salem-Chennai corridor, saying that the project will affect 72,000 farmers, besides felling one lakh coconut trees