SOUTH-Tamil Nadu after Kamaraj

October 18, 1975 lease of funds from the Centre has been halting. The project was estimated to cost Rs 40.47 crores in 1958. The first revised estimates in 1965 pushed up costs to Rs 119.20 crores. The second revised estimates in 1972 put them at Rs 183.36 crores. On the basis of the first estimates, the Planning Commission in 1961 sanctioned Rs 42.03 crores for the project