Azhagiri promises chemical, drug making units in Tamil Nadu

MADURAI - Ensuring uninterrupted supply of fertilisers to farmers and setting up a chemical plant and a drug manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu are some of Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Azhagiri’s immediate priorities, he said here Saturday.

“The government is taking all steps provide fertilisers to farmers without any hitch, and efforts will be taken to reduce the prices of life saving drugs,” Azhagiri told reporters.

The first-time MP added that he would take steps to set up a chemical factory between here and Tuticorin and a drug manufacturing unit in the state, apart from improving the road infrastructure in Madurai, his constituency.