Chennai:
The Officers Training Academy wants the Nanganallur Road Metro Station to be named as OTA station as a mark of tribute to the more than 53- year-old institution which nurtures budding officers for the Indian army, according to commandant of Officers Training Academy Lieutenant General Bobby Mathews.
Speaking to Express here on Wednesday, Mathews said that he had met the state chief secretary in this regard. “ Both sides of the land where the station is coming belongs to the Defence Ministry. We have requested the state government to change the name of the station to OTA metro station,” the general, who has been awarded chief of army staff commendation twice and Vishist Seva Medal for distinguished service, said.
When Express contacted Chennai Metro Rail officials on what action is being taken to rename the Nanganallur Road metro station to OTA, it was learnt that the request is being considered.
“We have considered the request and sent it to state government. The government has to decide on it,” said Metro Rail sources.
The station is among the elevated station coming up along corridor I of Chennai Metro (Washermenpet to Chennai International Airport stretch) and will serve the eighbourhoods Alandur , Nanganallur and St. Thomas Mount, among others.
The elevated stretch which passes right opposite the gate of OTA has taken away away the sheen from the rather imposing gates.
Officer Training School at Madras was raised on January 15, 1963 after India felt the need to train emergency commission officers to cater for rapid accretion after the post-Sino-India war.
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