The Department of Highways and Minor Ports of state of Tamil Nadu is one of the Department of
Government of Tamil Nadu
Government of Tamil Nadu is the subnational government for the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is seated at Fort St George, Chennai. The legislature of Tamil Nadu was bicameral until 1986, when it was replaced by a unicameral legislature, lik ...
History
* The Government of Tamil Nadu created a separate Highways Department as early as 1946 as sub department to Public Works Department
* 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
Present Ministers for Highways and Minor Ports
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E. V. Velu
Former Ministers for Highways and Minor Ports
* 2006–2011
Vellakoil Saminathan
*2017-2021
Edappadi K.Palanisamy
See also
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Government of Tamil Nadu
Government of Tamil Nadu is the subnational government for the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is seated at Fort St George, Chennai. The legislature of Tamil Nadu was bicameral until 1986, when it was replaced by a unicameral legislature, lik ...
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Tamil Nadu Government's Departments
The following are Government of Tamil Nadu Departments
Introduction
This a List of Government of Tamil Nadu's:
* Departments headed by Principal Secretary (India) to the Government
* Departments headed by Director (or) Commissioner of the Go ...
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Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (India)
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is a ministry of the Government of India, that is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules, regulations and laws relating to road transport, transport research and in als ...
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Department of Finance (Kerala)
The Department of Finance is a key ministry that manages the state finances and economy of the State of Kerala. The department is headed by a senior minister who has cabinet ranking as per Indian Cabinet Protocol Laws. The state assembly rules o ...
References
External links
www.tn.gov.in/departments/highways.html (Official website of the Tamil Nadu Highways and Minor Ports Department) www.tnhighways.org (Official website of the Tamil Nadu Highways Department) www.tn.gov.in (Official website of Government of Tamil Nadu)
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Tamil Nadu state government departments
Transport in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...