Vaithilingam leaves for Delhi to meet Chidambaram, Sonia Gandhi

Chief minister V Vaithilingam today left for Delhi to meet Home Minister P Chidambaram and seek clearance of proposals pertaining to developmental schemes.

Official sources said Vaithilingam would also meet AICC leader and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and formally invite her to Puducherry to declare open the Rs 38 crore government sponsored Women and Child Hospital (maternity hospital).

They said Sonia Gandhi would visit Puducherry this month and also inaugurate a housing project for tsunami affected fishermen families at Kalapet near here.

This project had been compleed through the Project Implementation Agency of Puducherry government coordinating the tsunami related relief and rehabilitation works.